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MEET THE [FIGURE 1.A.] JURY MEMBERS
Our JURY, which includes scientists, artists, and museum curators, selects the images to be presented in the [Figure 1.A.] exhibition
ROXANNE
CURRAT
Musée de la Main, Lausanne
Roxanne is a curator at Musée de la Main. She joined the museum in 2009 and has since been in charge of the scientific aspect of expositions in order to allow their translation for a general audience. She is a member of several associations linking science, culture and society.
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Iliana Tatsi
CERN Science Gateway, Geneva
Iliana is a curator at CERN. She joined the organisation in 2019 and is the project coordinator for the art space in CERN’s upcoming science centre, Science Gateway. She collaborates with contemporary artists and CERN physicists to create an exhibition that is inspired by the unanswered questions of the universe. Trained as a museologist and a digital humanities researcher, Iliana has worked and carried out research in various art and history museums, cultural centres and exhibitions of contemporary art.
CHRISTOPH BAUER
Bioimaging Center UNIGE, Geneva
Christoph is the managing director of the Bioimaging Centre for Microscopy and Image Analysis at the University of Geneva. He leads a team of specialists who offer guidance for each step of imaging projects and who have an extensive know-how in image acquisition through a strictly scientific perspective.
MELANIE AFFENTRANGER
Faculty of Biology and Medicine, UNIL
Photo credit: Felix Imhof © UNIL
Mélanie is a communication advisor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne since 2018. Trained as a journalist, she works closely with scientists to highlight research for the general public via publications and events.
Audrey Piguet
Photographer/Collection Acquisitions Photo Elysée Museum
Audrey is a photographer based in Lausanne. In her artistic work, she creates fantastic universes where reality and fantasy overlap. The opposition of these two worlds, nevertheless inseparable one from each other, is the most important inspiration of this artist, who likes to play on the illusion of appearances and the many interpretations that it can generate. Her work has been the subject of over 40 exhibitions in Switzerland, France, Germany, and USA. Some of her photographs are part of private and public collections, as in the Maison d'Ailleurs Museum (CH). She regularly gives workshops and training courses in photography and image analysis. Since 2020, she is in charge of assisting the follow-up of the Photo Elysée Museum's acquisitions.
Dr. Oliver Biehlmaier
Head of the Imaging Core Facility at the Biozentrum of the University Basel, Switzerland
[FIGURE 1.A.] JURY MEMBERS OF PAST EDITIONS
NAOMI MIDDELMANN
Artist
Naomi is an award-winning mixed media artist who is interested in the subjectivity of perception and memory. She actively collaborates with neuroscientists at the CHUV/UNIL developing research projects and teaching programs for scientists. With over 50 solo and group shows in galleries and art fairs in Switzerland, Europe and the USA, her work is featured in private and public art collections. She is a member of the Swiss artist association, Visarte, and is the president of Aperti, which organizes science and art conferences and studio visits in Lausanne.
OLIVER BIEHLMEIER
Imaging Core Facility Biozentrum, Basel
Oliver is the head of the Imaging Core Facility of the Biozentrum at the University of Basel. He leads a team of researchers and technical associates at a technology platform for the use of highly developed light microscopes. Apart from his extensive scientific background, he is fascinated by the beauty of imaging and photography, microscopic and macroscopic alike.
HANNAH PRÖBSTING
Musée de l’Elysée
Hannah is the Travelling Exhibitions and External Projects Manager at the Musée de l'Elysée, which she joined in 2017 after completing a PhD at the University of Michigan. Passionate about photography, she works together with museums, institutions and artists across the world to bring the discipline to diverse audiences in a wide range of contexts.
LYDIA DORNER
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Lydia is an assistant curator at Musée de l’Elysée, which she joined in 2012. There she curated and co-curated several major exhibitions, among which regeneration, Paolo Woods - State, and Martin Kollar - Provisional Arrangement. She is a contributing author for several publications dedicated to photography. She was a member of the pioneering [Figure 1A] jury team in 2017 and 2018.
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo
Artist
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is an award-winning visual artist based between London and Milan. His research is aiming to bridge art and science. Using AI and machine learning, virtual reality, infrared systems, or microorganisms in the lab, the artist’s research often focuses on opposing elements: creation-destruction, past-future, analog-digital, real-virtual. Winner of the European project BioArt Challenge in 2021, Lo Schiavo is currently an artist in residence at UCL, University in London. His art exhibitions were displayed in multiple museums and galleries across the world.
RÉMY FREYMOND
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, UNIL
Rémy is the senior faculty administrator in external affairs of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment at the University of Lausanne. In 2019, Figure 1A expanded to include the participation of members of the FGSE, which will be represented by Rémy within the jury team
ELENA MARTINEZ
Faculty of Biology and Medicine, UNIL
Elena joined the Faculty of Biology and Medicine in 2005 and is currently holding the position of a humanitarian assistant. She worked closely with Musée de la Main on the LABLIFE project 2014/2015 in which the excitement of experimentation and lab work was shared with a general audience. She was a member of the pioneering [Figure 1A] jury team in 2017 and 2018.
CHRISTINE LAVANCHY
Artist
In parallel to her activity as a laboratory technician, Christine has been a visual artist for more than 20 years. She explores painting and photography through an experimental approach, employing a fusion between the two disciplines. Passionate about mountains, freedom, and wide-open spaces, she discovered that nature in all its splendour and virginity is what gives meaning to her work during two trips to Patagonia. These visits to the Southern Lands marked her deeply and allowed her to express in a very personal way the symbiosis between art and the world.