Teamwork



GASPAR CLAUS




Born in 1983, Gaspar Claus has started the cello at age five. From his long studies in music Highschool with great teachers such as Philip Muller (NMSC, Paris) he has kept a part of his technical background. But his current research is based on an exploration of his cello skills beyond its basic use. He uses the whole body of the instrument (wood, metal & horsehair) to create a universe of sounds that he plays during his improvisations with many artists. His desire is to preserve the listening pleasure even in the most extreme situations. It always goes from one project to another, from one world to another, combining his music with very different worlds. Besides his solo performances (at the Knitting Factory, NYC; at Star Pine Cafe, Tokyo in galleries in Paris and in festivals) he has several projects with dancers like Nina Dipla or Moeno Wakamatsu, with French actors (Anne Alvaro, Serge Pey...) with electronic musicians (Rone, J_Mahtab, A. Yterce, Joakim Tigersushi...), pop musicians (Ramona Cordova, Damo Suzuki, Kria Brekan, Scout Nibblett, Sufjan Stevens, Cali...), the flamenco guitarist Pedro Soler, or with the improvised music scene in Japan (Umezu Kazutoki, Hiromishi Sakamoto, Kazuki Tomokawa, Otomo Yoshihide, Keiji Haino, Sachiko M...). Constantly looking for new artistic experiences, he is now also involved in many projects throughout the world.

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ANDREW PELLING


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Andrew Pelling is a professor cross-appointed in the Departments of Physics and Biology at the University of Ottawa. He was named a Canada Research Chair in 2008, was awarded a Province of Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2010 and in 2013 was elected a member of the International Global Young Academy. He completed his undergraduate studies at University of Toronto, his PhD under the supervision of James K. Gimzewski at the University of California, Los Angeles and the post-doctoral research as a Senior Research Fellow at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London with Michael A. Horton. Currently, he leads the Pelling Lab for Biophysical Manipulation, which is comprised of people from a wide variety of scientific backgrounds. The Lab is primarily focused on the integration of multiple optical techniques with nanomechanical probes to study how forces can be used to manipulate and control single cells, tissues, organs and whole organisms. The research in the Lab exists at the interface of several scientific disciplines (cell and molecular biology, artificial tissues, optics, physics and engineering) in order to study cell biophysics, stem cell fate, cancer cell biology and muscular diseases. His work is highly collaborative and exploratory and is always open to new directions and ideas.

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MAURIZIO PORFIRI





Maurizio Porfiri was born in Rome (Italy) and now happily resides in Brooklyn (New York). He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in engineering mechanics from Virginia Tech; a “Laurea” in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the University of Toulon (dual degree program). Since 2006, he has been a member of the faculty of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he is currently an associate professor. His work is at the interface of mechanical systems and biology, specifically focusing on the interaction between animals and robots. He is the author of more than 130 journal publications, and his research has been featured in numerous major media outlets, including CNN, Discovery Channel, and NPR. He has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Outstanding Young Alumnus award from the College of Engineering of Virginia Tech, the ASME Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award, and the ASME DSCD Young Investigator Award; and has been named to the  Popular Science “Brilliant 10” list for young scientists.

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FREDERIC SERRANO



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Born in 1974, Frédéric Serrano is a french musicologist and composer. Graduated in musicology and composition. Since 2011 he was appointed director of a music school in Lyon (France) and currently, he is professor in Musicology at the University of Lyon (improvisation, analysis). He is interested in new technologies for teaching and has created an educational musical site called musicaelys.eu. He composed several works for advertising and film, and has developped in the last fifteen years some personal compositions related to chamber music, orchestral and vocal works. He has also been a columnist on Resmusica.fr.

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JANAINA TSCHÄPE


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Born in Munich (Germany) in 1973, Janaina Tschäpe lives and works in Brasil and New York. She has studied fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) at the Hochschule für Bilende Kuenste, and at the School of Visual Arts in New York (USA) where she received a master’s degree in Fine Arts.
Her work plays on variation both in technics and expression and is full of whim, fantasy and originality. Through different angles, Nature holds center stage in her creative process. It is no coincidence that Janaina Tschäpe is rightly nicknamed “the Botanist of the Imagination”.

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AURORE ASSO


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Aurore Asso was born in 1979. National freediving records holder, she is a French champion of apnea: French record in free immersion in the Free-Diving World Championship of Nice (France), September 2012 and, of Kalamata (Greece), September 2013.  
She is also an AIDA freediving instructor and a Documentary Film Maker. 

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ALICIA LEFEBVRE




Graduated in psychophysiology (Paris, France), Alicia Lefebvre follows music lessons since her childhood. She has started cello at the age of five and lyric singing at fifteen. With the aim of mixing her different interests, she explores since one year Art-Science area through her new concept of Conference-Concert she developped with her partner Thomas Chabalier (student at CNSMDP). They made up a show called "Synaesthetic Emotions", through which they try to bring artistically neuroscientific and psychology matters to everyone, from neuroscientists to simply curious people, and from children to to elders long past retirement age. To furnish her projects on the visual field, she also decided to express her creativity through painting and visual arts, taking inspiration in the neurones fascinating colours coming from the last  techniques of cerebral imaging. She recently received a "Special Mention" participating at the “Concours Photo de la Société des Neurosciences”  that takes place in Bordeaux (France). In between of emotion and reason, where emotion supports reason and where reason takes a breath in the emotion, she tries to intellectualize meanders of her brain and share her discoverings artistically. 




 OPHELIA PAQUIERO



Born in France. Ophelia Paquiero was first trained at the National Conservatory of Nice (ten years). She pays attention to contemporary arts, especially on so-called experimental music. And so, her interest to this kind of arts stimulated researches. It has led her to turn to cinema that has become her main art cause. According to her, cinema has the unique power to sublimate each concept and to reach an absolute degree of emotion. Today, she studies cinema at the University of Nice and gets parallel studies in a Filmmaking School of Saint-Georges (Quebec, Canada).


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