French born in Paris in 1981, lives and works in Paris. After studying visual communications, Marie-Julie Bourgeois worked at Partizan Production company as an art director and post-production graphic designer. Developing her own artistic research, she produced a series of experimental videos on the subject of the body and its extensions through various collaborations with musicians. In 2008, she received a Masters in New Media at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle (ENSCI) with honors.In 2009, she followed to the EnsadLab/Diip research program and participated in the Topophonie research project at ENSCI, which addressed the sound navigation through a series of audio spatialized events. She is currently teaching at Evry University (91) and preparing a PhD in Aesthetics, Arts sciences and technologies at Université Paris 8. Her research focuses on physical and perceptual human activities captured between light and computer vision. These two elements are included in most of her interactive devices, be they are automatic or interactive. She currently develops interactive devices that deal with the issues of telepresence, where the camera, as an object, invades our everyday life. The question of the relationship between the audience and the artwork led her to develop apparatuses that bring out this tension. She uses light as a medium but also as a narrative, natural light as a vital entity and artificial light as a technological continuum. She questions the manipulation of time and our behaviour towards technology and scientific and climatic improvements. (http://mariejuliebourgeois.fr/apropos)
