Samuel Bianchini is an artist and researcher-teacher (professor, habilitated to supervise research) at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs—Paris (EnsAD) / PSL University Paris.
Supporting the principle of an “operational aesthetic,” he works on the relationship between the most forward-looking technological “dispositifs”, modes of representation, new forms of aesthetic experiences, and sociopolitical organizations, often in collaboration with scientists and natural science and engineering research laboratories.
With more than 100 collective and 20 solo exhibitions, his works are regularly presented in Europe and around the world: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Belo Horizonte, Rio De Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasilia), Benaki Museum Pireos (Athens), Red Brick Museum (Beijing), MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Jeu de Paume (Paris), Zürcher Gallery (New York), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh), Institut français de Tokyo, Stuk Art Center (Leuven), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Medialab Prado (Madrid), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Kunsthaus PasquArt (Biel), Waterfall Gallery (New York), Art Basel, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (Dresden), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Athens), FIAC (Paris), Laboratoria (Moscow), Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Carthage, Centre pour l’image contemporaine (Geneva), Biennale de Rennes, La Ménagerie de verre (Paris), space_imA and Duck-Won Gallery (Seoul), Nuit Blanche (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art Ateneo of Yucatán Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán (Mexico), Cité des sciences et de l’industrie (Paris), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM, Karlsruhe), Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, La Villa Arson (Nice), etc.
After defending his PhD thesis (of The Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne) in an art center (Palais de Tokyo in Paris) with a solo exhibition, and, more recently, his habilitation to supervise research, Samuel Bianchini is now the head of the “Reflective Interaction” research group at EnsadLab, the laboratory of EnsAD, and was the Co-Director of the Chaire Arts and Sciences (2017-2023) founded with École Polytechnique and the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. He is a member of the SACRe Laboratory (Sciences Arts Création Recherche) of PSL University and involved in its doctoral program for which he supervise PhD in art and design. He is also member of the canadian research-creation network Hexagram and associate member of the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
In close relation to his research and artistic practice, Samuel Bianchini has undertaken theoretical work, which has led to frequent publications edited, for example, by Éditions du Centre Pompidou, MIT Press, Analogues, Media-N - Journal of the New Media Caucus, Hermes, Les Presses du Réel, Springer, etc. He also founded the international and multi-platform image-based journal .able, published by Actar (Barcelona, New York) and launched in March 2023, of which he is currently editor-in-chief.
He co-edited with Erik Verhagen, Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art, MIT Press, 2016, https://mitpress.mit.edu ;
with Emanuele Quinz, Behavioral Objects 1 - A Case Study: Céleste Boursier Mougenot, Sternberg Press, 2016 www.sternberg-press.com ;
and, in 2017, with Mari Linnamn, À Distances. Œuvrer dans les espaces publics, Dijon, Éd. Les presses du réel, Coll. “Société des Nouveaux commanditaires”, www.lespressesdureel.com.
He was Chair of the “ICRA-X: Robotics & Art Program” of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra) in 2020, and Cochair of the “Art & Performance Track” of the ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) in 2025.
Samuel Bianchini collabore, for his art publications, with mfc-michèle didier (Paris)
and works with www.artjaws.com
Website: www.dispotheque.org
Reflective Interaction Research Group: http://reflectiveinteraction.ensadlab.fr