NINON LIZÉ MASCLEF
Media Artist & Research Scientist
Media Artist & Research Scientist
Ninon Lizé Masclef is a hybrid artist and scientist working in Paris, France. She holds a MSc in Data Mining and a BA in Philosophy of Technology from the University of Technology of Compiègne. Ninon develops an aesthetic of information flows : a click, a gaze, a body offered to the sensors. She retemporizes the traces captured by technological devices to give a mean of access to its real referent : the self and the Other. Her art practice unites various media like music performance, wearable biosensors, 3D graphics, creative AI, and interactive costume design. As a Research Affiliate at MIT, she specializes in multimodal AI and brain decoding. Her current research focuses on reconstructing visual imagery in 3D from brainwaves. She was recently awarded the Top 100 French Inventors 2024 prize for her work on brain-computer interfaces.
2022-2023
Ongoing research project to decode dream content in virtual reality.
role
Concept, experiment design, EEG data collection and analysis, text-to-mesh generation
authors
Taisija Demchenko, Ninon Lizé Masclef
press
keywords
VR, brain-computer interface, machine learning, neurosciences, immersive art, research
2022-2023
A brain-computer interface that turns emotional states into colourful lights. The mask reveals and augments the feelings of the wearer.
role
Concept, design, EEG data collection and analysis, electronics
press
exhibitions
Internet Archive, XEBEC Hall, Deutsches Museum, MakerFaire Sardinia, 3DExperience Munich, Copernicus Center, Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung Hamburg, Showroom technologique Paris-Saclay
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. Ninon Lizé Masclef. In AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Anne Asensio. (2023). 'Art & Science' Talk Panel at CATIA World Summit. ZHL. Hamburg, Germany.
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Strange Loops : Augmenting Feelings. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023.
prize
Top 100 French Inventors 2024 by Le Point Magazine, SolidWorks Fabricademy scholarship ($8000)
keywords
brain-computer interface, affective computing, 3D printing, wearable, hacking, music performance
2022-2023
Emotion recognition models from biosignals for ultra-personalized Music Recommender System.
role
Features extraction (EEG, EDA, ECG), ERP analysis, emotion classifier (SVM)
press
- Brut
keywords
brain-computer interface, affective computing, ML, neurosciences, music information retrieval, recommender systems, research
2023
Hypnagogic landscapes generated from EEG signals
role
Concept, experiment design, EEG data collection and analysis, text-to-mesh generation
authors
Taisija Demchenko, Ninon Lizé Masclef
exhibitions
Creativity and Cognition 2023 virtual gallery
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Taisija Demchenko. (2023). Hyperdream : Exploring Hypnagogia Organicity. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI:10.1145/3591196.3593506
keywords
3D, brain-computer interface, machine learning, neurosciences, immersive art, research
2022
Dream paintings generated from semantic features extracted from EEG signals of sleeping participants.
role
Concept, EEG data collection and analysis, text-to-image generation
authors
Esther Senneker, Valentina Gambo, Andreas Knoben, Beyza Nur Çay, Gwendolyn van der Bie, Ninon Lizé Masclef
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. In AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 2023.
prize
1st place IEEE Brain hackathon
keywords
brain-computer interface, neurosciences, AI art, hackathon
A love song in French co-created with Artificial Intelligence.
role
Singer, song-writer, guitarist, music generation, text-to-image generation
authors
Ninon Lizé Masclef, Tomasz Sroczynski
prize
AI Song Contest
keywords
music generation, AI art, contest
2021-2023
A tangible interface for 3D co-creation with AI.
role
Concept, design, DIY e-textile circuit, silicone casting, text-to-mesh generation, web development, GLSL shaders
authors
Marianne Canu, Sophien Chen, Adrien Chuttarsing, Ninon Lizé Masclef
exhibitions
ENS Paris Saclay, Joseph Gallery, Extended Senses Symposium + Stephen Lawrence Gallery
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 2023.
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Adrien Chuttarsing. (2023). Latent Organism: Embodied Co-Creation with AI. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Kaitlin M. Reed. (2023). Bio Deepfakes, Mimicry and Memes. In ACM CHI'23 Workshop on Living Bits and Radical Aminos. Hamburg, Germany.
Ninon Lizé Masclef and Adrien Chuttarsing. (2023). Latent Organism : a Tangible Interface for 3D Co-Creation with AI. In Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference (EVA London)
prize
creARTathon Inria
keywords
tangible interface, e-textile, interactive installation, 3D, embodiment, AI art
A brain-computer interface to generate music with the mind.
role
Hardware hacking, Max/MSP programming
keywords
brain-computer interface, music generation, hacking
2022-2023
Mixed media, tangible and interactive installation. Artificial flesh and 3D virtual world.
role
Silicone casting, circuit prototype, full stack development, WebXR, GLSL shaders
authors
Ninon Lizé Masclef, Syd Reynal
exhibitions
PHITECO, Teatri del Suono Festival
conference
Conférence Drôles d'objets 2023. Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France, 15-17 Mai 2023.
Sylvain Reynal and Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2023). Wunderblock : médier la présence par le tangible. In Proceedings of 'Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire' Symposium. Nancy, France.
Ninon Lizé Masclef, Sylvain Reynal. (2022). Être ensemble les médiations techniques de la présence. Seminar PHITECO (Philosophy Technology Cognition), University of Technology of Compiègne.
keywords
tangible interface, telepresence, teleabsence, 3D, VR, embodiment
2020-2021
Perceptually-grounded metrics to evaluate the state-of-the art automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment models.
role
Experiment design, data analysis, full stack development
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef, Andrea Vaglio, & Manuel Moussallam. (2021). User-centered evaluation of lyrics-to-audio alignment. Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 420–427
keywords
music information retrieval, psychology, evaluation metrics, user-centric, research
An AR installation exploring self-love.
role
Concept, design, web development, computer vision
authors
Ninon Lizé Masclef, Félix Ramon
exhibitions
Espace Niemeyer
prize
Jeune Creation
keywords
augmented reality, interactive installation, tracking, self-image
2019-2020
A multi-agent simulation platform for quantum computing.
role
Development, quantum algorithms (Deutsch and Grover) popularization
authors
Franck Assedou, Valérian Coulon, Ninon Lizé Masclef, Yi You
keywords
quantum computing, software, popularization
Calibration and validation modules for eye-tracking in VR
role
Development, testing
keywords
neurosciences, tracking, VR, software
Psychoanalyst conversational agent, with a dash of humour.
role
Concept, story writing, web development, NLP analysis
authors
Serge Bouchardon, Adrien Agnel, Théo Bastoul, Marine Carpe, Amaury Fouquet-Lapar, Ninon Lizé Masclef, Estelle Rose, Adrien Soler, Samuel Thomazeau
keywords
chatbot, affective computing, NLP, conversational agent
2018-2019
Dashboard of transmedia indicators to analyse French televisual archives.
role
Data visualisation, data analysis, full stack development
conference
Ninon Lizé Masclef. (2019). De Charlie Au Bataclan Retour Sur La Médiatisation Des Attentats de 2015. INA La Revue Des Médias.
keywords
datavisualization, big data, cloud computing, research, media history
Speculative 3D art performance on digital traces and virtual twins.
role
Concept, web development, GLSL shaders
keywords
3D, telepresence, net art