GASPAR CLAUS
Born in 1983, Gaspar Claus has
started the cello at age five. From his long studies in music Highschool with
great teachers such as Philip Muller (NMSC, Paris) he has kept a part of his
technical background. But his current research is based on an exploration of
his cello skills beyond its basic use. He uses the whole body of the instrument
(wood, metal & horsehair) to create a universe of sounds that he plays
during his improvisations with many artists. His desire is to preserve the
listening pleasure even in the most extreme situations. It always goes from one
project to another, from one world to another, combining his music with very
different worlds. Besides his solo performances (at the Knitting Factory, NYC;
at Star Pine Cafe, Tokyo in galleries in Paris and in festivals) he has several
projects with dancers like Nina Dipla or Moeno Wakamatsu, with French actors
(Anne Alvaro, Serge Pey...) with electronic musicians (Rone, J_Mahtab, A.
Yterce, Joakim Tigersushi...), pop musicians (Ramona Cordova, Damo Suzuki,
Kria Brekan, Scout Nibblett, Sufjan Stevens, Cali...), the flamenco guitarist
Pedro Soler, or with the improvised music scene in Japan (Umezu Kazutoki,
Hiromishi Sakamoto, Kazuki Tomokawa, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, Sachiko
M...). Constantly looking for new artistic experiences, he is now also involved
in many projects throughout the world.
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ANDREW PELLING
© Peter Thornton, University of Ottawa
Andrew Pelling is a professor cross-appointed in the
Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a
Canada Research Chair in 2008, was awarded a Province of Ontario Early Researcher
Award in 2010 and in 2013 was elected a member of the International Global
Young Academy. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Toronto,
his PhD under the supervision of James K. Gimzewski at the University of
California, Los Angeles and the post-doctoral research as a Senior Research
Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London with
Michael A. Horton. Currently, he leads the Pelling Lab for Biophysical
Manipulation, which is comprised of people from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds.
The Lab is primarily focused on the integration of multiple optical techniques
with nanomechanical probes to study how forces can be used to manipulate and
control single cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms. The research in the
Lab exists at the interface of several scientific disciplines (cell and
molecular biology, artificial tissues, optics, physics and engineering) in
order to study cell biophysics, stem cell fate, cancer cell biology and
muscular diseases. His work is highly collaborative and exploratory and is
always open to new directions and ideas.
MAURIZIO PORFIRI
Maurizio Porfiri was born in Rome (Italy) and now happily resides in
Brooklyn (New York). He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering mechanics
from Virginia Tech; a “Laurea” in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in
theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and
the University of Toulon (dual degree program). Since 2006, he has been a
member of the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of
the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he is currently an
associate professor. His work is at the interface of mechanical systems and
biology, specifically focusing on the interaction between animals and robots. He
is the author of more than 130 journal publications, and his research has been
featured in numerous major media outlets, including CNN, Discovery Channel, and NPR. He has
received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Outstanding Young
Alumnus award from the College of Engineering of Virginia Tech, the ASME Gary
Anderson Early Achievement Award, and the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; and
has been named to the Popular Science “Brilliant 10” list for young scientists.
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FREDERIC SERRANO
© Jean Michel Sabat
Born in 1974, Frédéric Serrano is a french musicologist and composer. Graduated in musicology and composition. Since
2011 he was appointed director of a music school in Lyon (France) and currently, he is professor in Musicology
at the University of Lyon (improvisation, analysis). He is interested in new
technologies for teaching and has created an educational musical site
called musicaelys.eu. He
composed several works for advertising and film, and has developped in the last
fifteen years some personal compositions related to chamber music, orchestral
and vocal works. He has also been a columnist on Resmusica.fr.
© Barney Kulok
Born in Munich (Germany) in 1973, Janaina Tschäpe lives and works in Brasil and New York. She has studied fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) at the Hochschule für Bilende Kuenste, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York (USA) where she received a master’s degree in Fine Arts.
AURORE ASSO
Her work plays on variation both in technics and expression and is full of whim, fantasy and originality. Through different angles, Nature holds center stage in her creative process. It is no coincidence that Janaina Tschäpe is rightly nicknamed “the Botanist of the Imagination”.
AURORE ASSO
© Igor Liberti
Aurore Asso was born in 1979. National freediving records holder, she
is a French champion of apnea: French record in free immersion in the Free-Diving
World Championship of Nice (France), September 2012 and, of Kalamata (Greece),
September 2013.
She is also an AIDA freediving instructor and a Documentary Film Maker.
She is also an AIDA freediving instructor and a Documentary Film Maker.
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ALICIA LEFEBVRE
Graduated in psychophysiology (Paris, France),
Alicia Lefebvre follows music lessons since her childhood. She has started
cello at the age of five and lyric singing at fifteen. With the aim of
mixing her different interests, she explores since one year Art-Science area
through her new concept of Conference-Concert she developped with her partner
Thomas Chabalier (student at CNSMDP). They made up a show
called "Synaesthetic Emotions", through which they try to bring
artistically neuroscientific and psychology matters to everyone, from
neuroscientists to simply curious people, and from children to to elders long
past retirement age. To furnish her projects on the visual field, she also
decided to express her creativity through painting and visual arts, taking
inspiration in the neurones fascinating colours coming from the
last techniques
of cerebral imaging. She recently received a "Special Mention"
participating at the “Concours Photo de la Société des Neurosciences” that takes place in Bordeaux (France). In
between of emotion and reason, where emotion supports reason and where reason
takes a breath in the emotion, she tries to intellectualize meanders of her
brain and share her discoverings artistically.
OPHELIA PAQUIERO
Born in France. Ophelia Paquiero was first trained at the National Conservatory of Nice (ten years). She pays attention to contemporary arts, especially on so-called experimental music. And so, her interest to this kind of arts stimulated researches. It has led her to turn to cinema that has become her main art cause. According to her, cinema has the unique power to sublimate each concept and to reach an absolute degree of emotion. Today, she studies cinema at the University of Nice and gets parallel studies in a Filmmaking School of Saint-Georges (Quebec, Canada).
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