Benjamin Gaulon New Chair of Transdisciplinary New Media

PCA is thrilled to announce that Benjamin Gaulon, artist, researcher, educator, and cultural producer was appointed Chair of the Transdisciplinary New Media graduate program.

Gaulon’s  research focuses on the limits and failures of information and communication technologies; planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society; ownership and privacy; through the exploration of appropriation, hacking and recycling. His projects can take the forms of softwares, installations, pieces of hardware, web based projects, interactive works, street art interventions and are, when applicable, open source. Gaulon has previously published his work under the pseudonym “recyclism”.

Gaulon is also a founding member of the collective NØ, a non-profit organization whose mission is to support and promote emerging art and design research, as well as practices that address the social and environmental impact of information and communication technologies in France and beyond. He has been co-directing the NØ SCHOOL NEVERS with Dasha Ilina since its first edition in 2019. He has been the artistic director of Espace USANII in Nevers since 2022.

Gaulon also teaches at SciencesPo, at École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay in the Research – Creation Degree (ARRC) and at CentraleSupélec – Université Paris-Saclay.

“The MTNM program is at the Intersection of art, design, media and technology in a fast growing and constantly evolving field of research and practices. With  years of practice, I am looking forward to sharing my first-hand experience as well as my network with PCA’s MA and MFA students in Transdisciplinary New Media.”