Pierre Lavoie  [moderator]
President
Hyptique - France
   
After founding and directing an art gallery in Montreal, his home town, he undertook formal linguistic studies which lead him for his Ph.D. to Stanford, California, where he took up artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He settled down in Paris in 1985 where he lead linguistics and music development projects. Since 1991 he has been CEO and creative director of Hyptique, a leading French studio in the field of cultural multimedia. He has directed the majority of the approximately 100 productions performed by Hyptique since 1994. He is currently the lead architect in the most ambitious web museum project of the French history, for the National Museum of Natural Science, still in the design stage. He is the director of Les éditions hyptique.net, a publishing venture launched in 2000 and which have won numerous awards — EMMA Award, Europrix, MIM, Diapason, Montreuil, et the Grand Prix Möbius of France. He is president and founder of the NUMER association. He lectures regularly on interaction design in different schools and universities, in France and abroad.



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