Dominique Moulon (born 1962) is ahistorian of art and technology, art critic and curator, specializing in Frenchdigital art. He is the author of the booksArt contemporain nouveaux médias andArt Beyond Digital.[1][2][3]
Dominique Moulon began his activities as anart historian ofnew media art andcomputer art by obtaining a Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique in 1987 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art inBourges France. In 1993 he obtained a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en esthétique, sciences et technologies des arts from theUniversity of Paris VIII. He obtained a PhD in Arts and sciences of the art from theUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2017.[4]
In 2002 he completed an extensive research project calledOutils et Création Numérique, which in detail conveyed the techniques computer artists were using in France. He paid close attention tointeractivity and developed aphilosophical investigation of the real and thevirtual, and its multisensory nature by stressing anaesthetics oftechnology. This work was conducted for the Recherche et Innovation department of the Délégation aux Arts Plastiques of the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Here Moulon began his work documenting the historical record of the relationship between technology anddigital forms of art, extending the historic work ofFrank Popper,Jack Burnham andGene Youngblood. Key to his initial thinking and activities as anaesthetician, cultural theorist,curator, teacher, andart critic was his encounter with the work ofPierre Restany,Jean-Louis Boissier,Roy Ascott,Edmond Couchot,Christine Buci-Glucksmann andFred Forest.
Working with the Délégation au Développement et aux Affaires Internationales, in 2004 he created a website to share his research at nouveauxmedias.net. In 2008 he initiated the English version of this website on newmediaart.eu. He also created mediaartdesign.net in 2011 and artinthedigitalage.net in 2018 to continue sharing his research on the relationship between art, technology and society. He was responsible for the digital art section of the French paper magazine "Images Magazine" from 2003 to 2010 and has contributed to the French Magazine “Art press” since 2013. He taught at theParsons School of Design in Paris from 2014 to 2021 and has been was a regular visiting instructor from 2007 to 2022 at theSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He has also curated exhibitions, such asL'art et le numérique en résonance at the art center of Mason Populaire inMontreuil, France, Variation Media Art Fair andZero Autonomy atCité International des Art in Paris,Human Learning at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, by focusing on the using of digital in art to highlight societal issues.[5][6]
AI Action Summit, Grand Palais, Paris, February 10–11, 2025.[7]
Michelangelo Penso:Magnetic nanoparticles Genesis, Galleria Alberta Pane, Paris, February 1 - March 29, 2025.[8]
Memo Akten: Boundaries,[9] Santa Maria della Visitazione, Venice, April 20 - November 24, 2024.
Reactivations,[10] Danae, Paris, February 28 - March 28, 2024.
Noise Media Art Fair,[11] Kadıköy Kent Museum, Istanbul, January 13–21, 2024.
Multitude & Singularity,[12] Le Bicolore - Maison du Danemark, Paris, December 8, 2023 - February 25, 2024.
Endless Variations,[13] with Alain Thibault and in collaboration with Catherine Bédard, Canadian Cultural Center, Paris, December 7, 2023 - Arpri 19, 2024.
Another Perspective,[14] [Senne], Brussels, April 20 – May 7, 2023.
Computing Beauty,[15] Gallery A.dition, Seoul, May 27 - September 27, 2022.
Art Me!,[16] Galerie Charlot, Paris, April 21 - July 30, 2022
Decision Making[17]: The Decisive Instant, with Alain Thibault and in collaboration with Catherine Bédard, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, December10th 2021 - April 15, 2022.
Human Learning: Machines Teach Us,[18] with Alain Thibault and in collaboration with Catherine Bédard, Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, February 5 - August 28, 2020.
Multiplying Points of View, in Pascal Dombis:Post-Digital (monograph), Skira, Paris, 2025, p. 76-81, ISBN 9782370742650.
Masterpieces of the 21st Century, 2021, Art in the Digital Age, 224 pages, ISBN 979-8-547-78536-8.
Japan, Art and Innovation inTransphere 2016 - 2020, (exhibition catalog), Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2021, p. 48-49, ISBN 978-4-87540-183-4.
Art, Technology and Trends, inats@50: Art and Technology Studies; 1969-2019,Eduardo Kac (edited by), School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2019, p. 40-47, ISBN 978-0-578-51202-0.[19]
Capturing the invisible, inMathilde Lavenne (exhibition catalog), Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 2019, p. 2-3.
On Combinations at Work, inPascal Dombis (monograph), Supernova, Paris, 2018, p. 115-119, ISBN 978-2-490353-00-2.[20]
Exhibiting the Museum: The Hybrid Spaces of Workspace Unlimited, inPracticable: From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art, Samuel Bianchini & Erik Verhagen (edited by), The MIT Press, Leonardo Book Series, Cambridge, 2016, p. 543-549, ISBN 9780262034753.[21]
Moulon, Dominique.Art et numérique en résonance, Nouvelles éditions Scala, 2015, French, 158 pages, ISBN 978-2-35988-156-1.
Conversation, inBill Vorn and his hysterical machines: robotic art and culture, Ryszard W. Kluszczyński (Edited by), CCA Laznia, Gdansk, 2014, p. 52-73, ISBN 978-83-61646-05-1.
Fifty questions forEduardo Kac, inLife, Light & Language (exhibition catalog), Centre des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains, 2011, p. 10-84, ISBN 978-2-916639-17-8.
The Digital Art Market: Challenges And Opportunities, International Marketplace for digital art, Biennale Elektra, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada, 2024.[22]
AI and Art: the struggle, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, 2023.[24]
Imagination versus Reality, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, 2022.[25]
Reality versus Imagination, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium, 2022.[26]
Interconnections between Visual Art, Digital Art and NFTs, with Frederic Laffy, Masha Maskina, Albertine Meunier and Pau Waelder, CADAF, Online, 2021.[27]
Future potential of Virtual Reality, with Tina Sauerländer, Jay Kim and Olivier Fontenay, SymposiumMaking Lemonade, Online, 2021.[28]
The art of acting somewhere else, SymposiumAdventures of Identity: From the Double to the Avatar, Institut d'Etudes Avancées,Paris, France, 2018.[29]
Machines, Intelligence and Creativity, Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore, 2018.
Creation and Contemporary Art: Digital art does not exist!, International Digital Arts Market, Phi Centre,Montreal, Canada, 2018.
Coefficient of Digital, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA),Manizales, Colombia, 2017.[30]
Digital Coefficient, International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA),Vancouver, Canada, 2015.[31]
Digital as Contemporary Art, Media Art Futures Conference, Centro Párraga,Murcia, Spain, 2015.[32]
Digital practices of contemporary art, Interface Culture, University of Arts,Linz, Austria, 2014.
De la ville comme atelier pour un art de relations,Lumières de la ville, 5e Biennale Internationale Toronto Montréal Lille, laboratoire Hexagram CIAM, Université du Québec àMontreal, Canada, 2013.[33]
