Biography - english

In 1988, Florent Aziosmanoff  co-founded ART3000, France’s first nonprofit organization dedicated to digital art and that is still the leader in the field today. Florent Aziosmanoff has been at the fore-front of digital design and research in Europe. He created the most widely read Digital Art magazine on the subject —“NOV'ART”—  and was a regular columnist and editor in chief until in 1997. Since then, he has authored countless exposition catalogues and articles. His book, published by the French National Research Center (CNRS), focuses on his design research, entitled “Living-Art. The Digital Art”.

In 1993, Florent Aziosmanoff launched the “Atelier”, to support artists. He encouraged the creation of experimental digital art-work incorporating real time systems and artificial intelligence. Florent Aziosmanoff in his capacity of Creative Art Director, has grown the "Atelier" concept into an incubator for professional artists interested in experimenting with advanced digital technologies. The" Atelier" is now dedicated to the  “Living-Art”.

Florent Aziosmanoff's teaching is an extension of this applied research, and includes highly specialized seminars international conferences and brainstorming sessions. Over the past years, he has organized a series of landmark colloquia (1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005) entitled “Etats Généraux de l’Ecriture Interactive”, dedicated to analyzing the practical and theoretical issues raised by digital art and interactive narrative. These included world famous guest lecturers, large exhibitions, presentations and collective publications.

He has curated many avant-garde exhibitions on digital art, including at the Centre Georges Pompidou (1991) and the Palais de Tokyo (1992,1993). He created the “Festival Premier Contact”, introducing “Living-Art” into the city streets of Paris (2002, 2005). In 2006 (Belgrade), 2007 (Shanghai) and 2008 (Seoul), he was invited to pursue experimental installations of “Living-Art” in urban spaces.

He has been a lecturer at The Sorbonne,  Université Paris 8, and in internationally known schools such as Strate College Designers and Supinfocom. He has also been invited to speak at MIT’s Media Lab in Boston, MediaLabEurope in Dublin, Sookmyung University of Seoul, NYU’s Tisch School of Art, and Belgrade's International Art Management Program. He is an advisor for the European Community and the French Ministry of Culture.

Also an artist, Florent Aziosmanoff specializes in what he calls “behavioral fictions”, that include stories in virtual spaces or embodied in robots. Today, his main interest is adapting video game based technology to issues in contemporary art. Based on several personal experimental prototypes, his field of expertise has become open and dynamic narrative forms.