Centre National de la Musique
Centre National de la Musique
The goal of the CNM is to guarantee the diversity, renewal and freedom of musical creation. The CNM’s financial and non-financial aid schemes aim to support authors, composers, artists and the professionals who work with them to enable them to reach out to all audiences in France and internationally.
SACEM
Founded in 1851, Sacem is a private, non-profit society owned by its members, the authors, composers and publishers of music.It acts in complete transparency and independence. In an increasingly complex environment, collective management represents the most effective solution for protecting and promoting creation.
Omelia Thompson
Omelia Thompson is a video programming specialist with experience in training AI, writing shaders, computer vision, and complex mathematics. They make cool stuff including animations and programs and things that help people. Omelia will be sharing Dodecaplex, a 4D game engine inspired by sacred geometry and magic. It's written entirely in C/C++.
Ilan Manouach
Ilan Manouach (1980) is a comics artist and a postdoctoral scholar on Computational Creativity at
the University of Liège. He is also an affiliate scholar at Harvard metaLAB, a member of Racliffe’s
Institute for Climate Sound & Society, and an affiliate researcher at Paris VIII with Labo Paragraph.
He is the author of over 30 comic books and the editor of Chimeras. Inventory of SyntheticCognition, a collective glossary on AI , with 150 contributors exploring a variety of epistemic perspectives on artificial intelligence: interspecies, crip, monstrous, feminist, distributed, and decolonial, among others. He is an appointed expert on the comic ...
Villa Albertine
Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education, is a division of the French Embassy in the United States.
Under the leadership of Mohamed Bouabdallah, Cultural Counselor of France and Director of Villa Albertine, we craft projects and programs aimed at making French language and culture accessible to US audiences and build partnerships between French and American higher education institutions. We have offices in ten cities across the country.In the field of education, we work to ensure broad and equal access to French language programs for US-based learners of all ages. Offerings include support for instructors and schools ...
