The point of viewfrom our experts

20 experts for a Master

Whether they are independent artists, entrepreneurs, academics or engineers and researchers, twenty personalities deliver their expertise on the interest of training at Master’s level in Creative Media designed by the Consortium EESI – ENJMIN – EMA (Angoulême, France) and the TEC from Monterrey (Zapopan, Mexico) as part of the Confluence Créative project and talk about their vision of the future of creative technologies.

BRUNO GHIGOU

Bordeaux, FR

Compositor, production manager and compositing supervisor for film, animation and VFX. Special effects teacher at EMCA Angoulême and Bordeaux Ynov Campus™.

CARLOS VILCHIS

Mexico City, MX

PHD (Philosophiæ doctor) in computer-generated image, professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey, CTO (chief technical officer) and entrepreneur, animation and computer-generated image, specialist in motion capture, real-time process and creation of "virtual beings", economics blockchain.

CÉCILE LE PRADO

Paris, France

Music composer, teacher-researcher at the CNAM, professor of interactive sound design at the Cologne Game Lab, works in Cédric's laboratory at the CNAM.

DON FORESTA

Paris, France

Director of the “art and media” project at the American cultural center in Paris and first “telematic” exchange with the Center of advanced visual studies at MIT in 1981, then at the Paris Biennale (1982). Creator of the first "video art, computer and network" department at ENSAD in 1976. Creator of the MARCEL network.

ERIC PRIGENT

Tourcoing, FR

Second year coordinator Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts, training establishment, production and artistic dissemination through “Panorama” meetings.

ERIC VIENNOT

Marseilles, FR

Game designer and author of transmedia projects, co-founder of the Lexis Numérique studio where he officiates as a graphic designer and artistic director, French pioneer of the ARG (alternate reality game).

FABIEN ZOCCO

Lille, FR

Digital art artist working on the question of text and moving objects, graduated from ÉSI in Poitiers in 2012 then from Fresnoy - studio national des arts contemporains - in 2016. Lecturer at Paris VIII ArtTeC, Paris I and at the University of Valencienne in the Master's "Digital Humanities".

FABRICE GUICHARD

Rennes, FR

Founder and Director of the graphic studio POLYMORPH created in 2002. Sector Industry, Museography, leisure and entertainment, AR, VR, Serious Game, 3D, 4D, collaborative / individual.

FAUSTO CANTU

Monterey, MX

CEO of Render Farm Studios™, specialized in the creation, production and distribution of technical and visual solutions for digital media through the use of "disruptive" technologies, graduate of the University of Monterrey and the Dublin Institute of Technology.

GUNDOLF FREYERMUTH

Köln, DE

Professor of Media and Game Studies at Cologne Game Lab, co-founded with Björn Bartholdy in 2010. Previously a professor of "Comparative Media Studies" at the International Filmschule Köln, an essayist and documentary filmmaker, he has particularly focused on the question of "storytelling".

JEAN-MARIE DALLET

Paris, France

Artist and professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in art, new media and interactivity.

JEAN-PAUL FOURMENTRAUX

Marseilles, FR

Teacher-researcher, professor at Aix-Marseille University and EHESS and sociologist of art specializing in digital cultures, art/science and contemporary art.

LUC COURCHESNE

Montreal, CA

Assistant and honorary professor at the University of Montreal in game design (partnership with Ubisoft) and experience design, digital artist.

MARIA JOSÉ SANSHEZ

Newcastle, AUS

Co-founder and Latin American representative of Art Thinking Australia (Ambassador of Ars Electronica); business research (commercial watch), strategy and partnership; expertise around transdisciplinary programs for the academic world, consultants and governments.

RONAN GAUGNE

Rennes, FR

Virtual Reality Research Engineer and Technical Director of the Immersia platform, IRISA laboratory, Rennes.

SABINE HITIER

Angouleme, FR

Veteran of 3D animation for 20 years in Angoulême, currently director of FOST Studio (Angoulême branch) which officiates on 2D animation (Le Sommet des Dieux, Ernest et Célestine...).

STEPHANE SINGIER

Angouleme, FR

Cultural and Creative Industries Community Manager, Cap Digital. Vice-president SPFA / Treasurer Forum Cartoon / Mediator for the Animation Development Innovation Meetings (RADI) Angoulême.

STÉPHANIE CADORET

Lausanne, CH

Animation filmmaker, animation-oriented performer, animation teacher at the EESI in Angoulême and at the Ceruleum school in Lausanne, researcher in the history of cinema on the ways in which creators appear in their processes animation.

THIERRY BAUJARD

Berlin, DE

Director of Media Deals®, pan-European network based in Berlin of private investment around the creative industries: audiovisual, video games, "fashion tech" and music. Support for public and private funding, assistance in investing around creative industries.

VINCENT PUIG

Paris, France

Director of the IRI (Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation) co-founded with Bernard Stiegler and the Centre Pompidou in 2006: cultural and contributory technologies, digital as a medium for knowledge production; study of "amateur" communities in the field of music at IRCAM.