Draft:Gwenola Wagon

Gwenola Wagon studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. In 2006, she defended her doctoral thesis in aesthetics, science and technology of the arts, entitled "Utopias of an Interactive Cinema: Accessibility of Moving Images," under the supervision of Jean-Louis Boissier at Paris 8 University.^[1] She was a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at Paris 8 University.^[2] She is a lecturer at Paris-Sorbonne University.^[3][4] Her research focuses on the relationship between the digital and the physical world .

Alongside her academic work, she produces a diverse range of artistic works, including films , interactive pieces , installations, performances, and books . The majority of her work is created in partnership with Stéphane Degoutin . They explore internet spaces , algorithms , urban lifestyles, and work, and conduct experiments on human behavior .

In 2011, she undertook a journey around the world without leaving Google Earth , following the route of Jules Verne's character , Phileas Fogg, in Around the World in Eighty Days . This resulted in a film and a book, entitled Globodrome.^[5]

In 2015, she co-directed with Stéphane Degoutin the film World Brain , which combines an investigation into Internet infrastructure and a fictional story featuring a group of researchers going into the forest to try to survive using only the Internet.^[6]

With Jeff Guess, she leads the research projects Media Mediums,^[7] and Haunted by Algorithms,^[8] which examine the links between the development of media, spiritualist practices and inter-species communication .

In 2019, she co-directed with Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Stéphane Degoutin the film Erewhon , which transposes the plot of Samuel Butler's 1872 novel to the contemporary era. While in Butler's book, the Erewhonians have eliminated all machines, in this new version, on the contrary, they organize all of social life.^[9]

Most of the films made by Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin imagine alternatives and paradoxical narratives to deconstruct the contemporary digital world.

• 2005: Mémoires flottantes, (Floating Memories) , interactive documentary with Alexis Chazard ^[10]
• 2005: What are You? with Marka Dermineur and Stéphane Degoutin
• 2011: Globodrome , film and catalogue
• 2012: Dance Party in Irak (Dance Party in Iraq) , video installation with Stéphane Degoutin ^[11]
• 2012: Cyborgs dans la brume (Cyborgs in the Mist) , film, sound installation, photographic prints and book with Stéphane Degoutin ^[12]
• 2015: World Brain , film and interactive website with Stéphane Degoutin  , ^[13]
• 2016: Psychanalyse de l’aéroport international (Psychoanalysis of the International Airport) ISBN 978-2-490148-03-5, book with Stéphane Degoutin  , ^[14]
• 2017: Institut de néoténie pour la fin du travail (Institute of Neoteny for the End of Work) , installation at the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial with Stéphane Degoutin ^[15]
• 2019: Bienvenue à Erewhon (Welcome to Erewhon), film accompanied by a series of texts, with Stéphane Degoutin and Pierre Cassou-Noguès, 2019
• 2022: Virusland , a film made with Pierre Cassou-Noguès ^[16][17]
• 2022: Planet B , book, 369 editions, 2022, 320 p. ISBN 978-2-490148-10-3
• 2023: La Maison qui vous veut du bien (The House That Wants You Well ), film.
• 2023: Chroniques du soleil noir (Chronicles of the Black Sun ), installation and film.
• 2025: Les Images pyromanes (The Pyromaniac Images) , book, UV editions, 2025 with Pierre Cassou-Noguès .