Baudouin Saintyves

Baudouin Saintyves (he/him) is a physicist, engineer, and multimedia artist. He is a faculty member at INRIA Lyon (France) and a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago’s James Franck Institute. He is the founding director of the live cinema project Shapes of Emergence. His artwork spans performance and installations at the cross of real-time video, experimental physics and robotics, and was shown in multiple international venues and festival including ISEA, Ars Electronica Festival, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and Current New Media Festival. His hybrid scientific and artistic research explores how patterns and behaviors self-organize in nature and how this can lead to artificial life and intelligence in robotic matter.