Vivien Roussel in collaboration with Pierre Alexis Ciavaldini

Vivien Roussel is a biodesigner and digital sculptor. He is working on a PhD in living materials engineering, design and biology at IFT Paris and the University of Nîmes (Projekt / UPR Chrome).

Roussel is interested in narratives that expose our links with technology, questioning modernity through the figure of Robinson Crusoe or 'social sculpture' through the co-creation of fab labs. To understand the productive 'world' of makers, he wandered around China in 2014. In recent years, inspired by techno-aesthetics, he has taken an interest in the living as a technological artefact. He develops biomaterials in the company of microbes and machines, rethinking the agencies between the living and the non-living in the age of biotechnologies and the Anthropocene...

Pierre-Alexis Ciavaldini is an artist and engineer. For many years he has been developing tools and interfaces dedicated to digital fabrication, promoting making, distributed fabrication and open-source. Through MakerNet, he has set up a distributed, versionable manufacturing platform for designers and makers. Co-founder and CTO of Cosmyx3D, he produces industrial 3D printers in France. More generally, a jack-of-all-trades with a passion for technology, he is interested in trans-humanism, bioinformatics, AI and cryptocurrencies.

Works
Residencies

2024

Kersnikova Institute (Kapelica Gallery)