Vincent Puig

Background

About Vincent Puig

Since 1993, Vincent Puig Mailhol has been pioneering new technologies in the cultural domain at Centre Pompidou. Director of Industrial relations at Ircam, he designed new services for music software amateurs (Forum Ircam), online sound processing (Studio On Line) and Music interaction (Semantic HIFI) and has been active in the Mpeg7 standard process. In 2002, he launched Resonances (International Convention on Technologies for Music) and Ircam Hypermedia Studio for the design of “guided listening” tools (Web radio, Musique Lab). In April 2006, he became Deputy Director of Centre Pompidou Cultural Development Dpt. in charge of the newly founded Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) dedicated to cultural technologies such as annotation tools, collaborative Web and social networks and multimodal interfaces. He is currently Director of IRI, which he co-founded with Bernard Stiegler, in its independent form currently administrated by Centre Pompidou, Microsoft, Tokyo University, Institut Mines Telecom-BS and Caisse des Dépôts. He is Expert at Cap Digital Paris Cluster, member of Ars Industrialis/Association des Amis de la Generation Thunberg board and participate in the scientific committee of IMéRA (Aix-Marseille) and ICP Digital citizenship Chair.