Jean-Louis Boissier
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Jean-Louis Boissier (born January 16, 1945 in Loriol-sur-Drôme (Drôme), is a French academic, artist, researcher, essayist and exhibition curator who focuses on the question of participation and interactivity in art.[1] In 1969, Boissier was part of the founding team of the arts department of the Université Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint-Denis. He earned a doctorate there in 1979 with a thesis called The Question of Heritage in the Plastic Arts in China (1972-1979).[2] Boissier focuses on the aesthetics of photographic, digital and interactive capture technology and as a professor of aesthetics and art-and-sciences research director at the University of Paris 8, he founded a team called Aesthetics of Interactivity in 1994 and Aesthetics of New Media in 2003. Since 2013, he has been Professor Emeritus at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint-Denis.[3]