Maurice Benayoun is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong.
Stéphane de Gérando is a French composer, conductor, multimedia artist, and researcher.
Edmond Couchot was a French digital artist and art theoretician who taught at the University Paris VIII.
Giuliana Setari Carusi is an Italian contemporary art collector and a major figure in the international art world. After many years in Brussels, New York and Milan, she currently lives between Paris and Brussels. Together with her husband Tommaso Setari she started in the early 80s collecting contemporary art: their collection is now well known internationally. She is the founding President of the non-profit charity organization Dena Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Henri Verdier is a French entrepreneur and digital specialist who has been serving as the country's ambassador for digital affairs since 2018. Previousy he was the French State Chief Technology Officer (CTO) from 2015 to 2018 and, before, the Head of Etalab, the French Agency for Public Open data.
Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur.
The Conseil national du numérique is a French independent advisory commission created on 29 April 2011 by the French presidential decree n°2011-476. It was reorganized and expanded by another French presidential decree on 13 December 2012, to expand its spectrum of actions to all the questions set up by the development of the digital in society and economy. The council issues independent opinions and recommendations on any question relating to the impact of digital technologies on economy and society. The government can consult the council on new legislation or draft regulations.
The Poietic Generator is a social-network game designed by Olivier Auber in 1986, and developed from 1987 under the label free art thanks to many contributors. The game takes place within a two-dimensional matrix in the tradition of board games and its principle is similar to both Conway's Game of Life and the surrealists' exquisite corpse.
Miguel Chevalier is a French digital and virtual artist. Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has used computers as a means of expression in the field of the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art.
Hervé Fischer is a French artist-philosopher and sociologist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure and defended his Master's thesis on Spinoza's political philosophy with Raymond Aron and devoted his main research to the sociology of colour. For many years he taught the sociology of communication and culture at the Sorbonne, where he was promoted to master lecturer in 1981. At the same time, he developed a career as a multi-media artist and creator of "sociological art" (1971) and initiated many public participation projects with radio, television, and print media in many European and Latin American countries before coming to Quebec. He speaks fluently French, English, German and Spanish.
Abdel Bounane is a French entrepreneur, publisher and editorialist. He is the founder of Amusement, a lifestyle magazine on digital cultures, and the founder of Bright, producing 3D, immersive, playful experiences. Ranked by the media Les Inrocks among the 100 "redefining culture" and WIRED Japan as "changing the way his audience sees the game world", he also writes editorials for CANAL+, French NPR "France Culture", GQ, Le Nouvel Observateur.
Danièle Bourcier is a French lawyer and essayist, who has contributed to the emergence of a new discipline in France: Law, Computing and linguistics.
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel was a French writer, poet, art critic and collector.
The loi pour une République numérique is a French law first proposed by Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, voted on 7 October 2016.
Michel Ragon was a French art and literature critic and writer. His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature.
Alexia Guggémos, is a French art critic, curator, writer and digital sociologist. The Art Gorgeous Magazine ranked her in the top 20 most influential women of the French art scene (2019).
Linternaute.com is a major French news site, launched in 2000. As of November 2020, it was the 99th most visited website in France.
Martine Aballéa is a French-American artist born in 1950.
SINGULART is an online contemporary art and design furniture premium shop based in Paris, France, and founded in 2017. It caters to painters, photographers, sculptors, furniture designers and has over 10,000 artists.
Arskan was a computer software company that was based in Lyon, France. It was founded in 2016 and developed technologies that allowed the visualisation of 3D data.
