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The Automedia organization brings together researchers from different scientific disciplines, citizens, media-activists, designers and digital engineers.
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Victor Chaix
Researchers
Victor Chaix is a Master student in Digital Humanities, at the University of Bologna. He currently conducts his research at the Institute of Network Cultures, with Geert Lovink, in the aim of conceiving new forms of online mediation. His thesis work is at the crossroads of philosophy and design, in an approach that is both theoretical and experimental – that is, in which certain concepts drawn from the humanities are put at the service of coding alternative digital spaces of discussion and publication. He is also a founding member and vice-president of the Association des Amis de la Génération Thunberg (AAGT), for which he is notably in charge of the blog. Victor has had several experiences in journalism, such as at Le Monde or the online daily Reporterre, as well as more “mediactivist” ones, within Extinction Rebellion and, before that, within student newspapers and magazines. His collaborations with Bernard Stiegler and his work on the philosopher’s last tracks of a “new foundation for theoretical computer science” encouraged him to extend these experiences, by working on the very conditions of the production, circulation and interpretation of digital information.
Anna Longo
Researchers
Doctor of Aesthetic Philosophy. She is program director at the International College of Philosophy (CIPh, Paris) and affiliated with the Laboratory for Social and Political Change (EA7335 — University of Paris Cité). Deleuze, a Philosophy of Multiplicity, Paris, Ellipses, 2024. The Game of Induction.
Viviana Lipuma
Researchers
Viviana Lipuma holds a doctorate in aesthetics (University of Paris Nanterre), is a qualified teacher of philosophy, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Federal Fluminense University (Brazil) and an associate researcher at the Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies (South Africa). She works at the intersection of political philosophy, art history, and the sociology of communication, with a particular focus on the neoliberal turn of capitalism, the crises it provokes in terms of mental, social, and environmental ecology, and the emancipatory potential of the visual arts. Drawing on reflections on clichés, semiotics, and control societies in the work of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, she conducted a research project on critical media (Automedias, 2022–2024) and has notably published “Producing Reality: Images Tested by Their Political Efficacy” (Hybrid, 2017) and “From Mass Media Act to the Creation of Free Media.” What is a minority media strategy? » (Hermann, 2019), “The lures of post-media autonomy” (Cahiers Costech n° 6, 2024), “Territories. Expressive semiotics, nation and racism” (Ellipses, 2024) and “Politicizing desire in times of disaster” (Puf, 2025).
Zakaria Bendali
Researchers
Zakaria Bendali is a doctoral student in political sociology at the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Lausanne, and a member of CRAPUL. He is working under the supervision of Olivier Fillieule (Unil/CRAPUL) and Dominique Cardon (Sciences Po/Medialab) on the biographical consequences of involvement in the Yellow Vests movement, with a particular focus on the trajectories of first-time activists and the use of digital social networks by collective mobilizations. He is also a member of the Quantité Critique collective, coordinated by Yann Le Lann (CeRIES), which has published several studies of the Yellow Vests.
Louis Morelle
Researchers
Louis Morelle teaches philosophy and is a PhD Candidate at Paris-1 University. He works on the relationship between metaphysics, experimentation and speculation within German Naturphilosophie. He blogs additional research at henkaipan.hypotheses.org
Lucie Raymond
Researchers
Lucie Raymond is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Paris, member of UR “Religion, Culture and Society” (EA 7403) and associate researcher at GRIPIC (CELSA, Sorbonne University). She worked on the discourses and forms of media coverage of so-called “anti-system” political figures, and more broadly questions the relationship between media and politics.
Ludovic Duhem
Researchers
Ludovic Duhem is an artist and philosopher, his research focuses on the relationships between aesthetics, technology, and politics within the context of current ecological challenges. More specifically, he develops a “techno-aesthetics” for both human and non-human worlds through a relational, processual, and scalar approach, drawing on both contemporary post-phenomenological philosophy and the contributions of the humanities and life sciences. In parallel, he develops an eco-social theory of art and design applied to territory, based on social ecology, bioregionalism, and mesology. His artistic work centers on landscape as an expression of the tensions inherent in human-altered environments, which he formalizes through drawing, sculpture, and performance. He exhibits regularly in France and abroad.
Igor Galligo
Project Founder
Igor Galligo was born in France to families of French, Italian, and Tunisian descent. He received extensive university research education and experience in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, as well as in art and design, in France (Paris Sorbonne University, Paris 5 University, Paris 8 University, Paris 10 University, EnsadLab, EHESS, ENSAPV, UTC Costech, Ministry of Culture and Communication DREST), Switzerland (IXDM, FHNW), Germany (Technische Universität Berlin; Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), and the United States (University of California, Berkeley). Regardless of the country or university, the research institutions with which he worked suffered from a problem of social representation. Most often, these institutions concentrated creative and production power according to cultures and forms imagined and designed by an elite, rather than according to democratic principles and rules in which other social groups could also find themselves reflected. However, his experiences working within social and cultural associations in working-class neighborhoods have shown him that it is not only possible to democratize the production of knowledge, arts, and technologies, but also urgent to work towards this goal in order to enable the collective construction of societies, beyond the issues of emancipation. To this end, he proposes thinking of democracy and democratization as questions and issues of production, that is to say, as questions pertaining to design, economics, and politics. This is what he is currently working on with Automedias. His aim is to collectively invent and experiment with new contributory designs of information, which must be new ways of informing and communicating in order to reshape the media production of democratic societies.
Nina Begus
Researchers