Ninon Lizé Masclef is a hybrid artist and scientist working in Paris, France. She 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. She is a singer and multi-instrumentalist attaching great importance in multimedia and noise experimentation. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows and seminaries (Deutsches Museum, Internet Archive, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, Galerie Joseph, Espace Niemeyer, Maker Faire) and research presented in top-tier venue (NeurIPS, ICML, CHI). As a Research Affiliate at MIT Media Lab (Fluid Interfaces), she is currently working on visual imagery reconstruction in 3D from brainwave activity, under the guidance of Prof. Pattie Maes. She was recently awarded the Top 100 French Inventors 2024 prize for her work on brain-computer interfaces, as featured in Le Point magazine.

Skills : Multimodal AI, Wearable Biosensors, Human-Centered Research, Machine Learning, Biomedical Signal Processing, Experimental Psychology, Neurosciences, Usability Testing, Design, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, Full Stack Development, Databases, Generative Design, 3D modeling, 3D reconstruction, OpenGL, Shaders, 3D printing, woodworking (jigsaw, mitre saw), CNC milling machine, laser cut, casting and molding, Microcontrollers (Arduino, Raspberry, STM32), PCB making, e-textile, Soft robotics.

Languages and Tools : Python, PyTorch, Scikit Learn, CUDA, Lightning, MNE, OpenCV, Librosa, Wandb, PsychoPy, NodeJS, C, C++, Java, R, PHP, SQL, HTML, Javascript, GLSL, XML, Prolog, Lisp, LaTeX, Docker, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Git, Zotero.

Exhibitions and performances
2024 - Strange loops (brainwave music performance), Xebec Hall. Kobe, Japan.
2024 - Strange loops (brainwave music performance), Internet Archive. San Francisco, United States.
2024 - Strange loops, MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA, United States.
2023-2024 - Strange loops, Showroom technologique Paris-Saclay. Palaiseau, France.
2023 - Augmented Diversity, NeurIPS Creative AI Art Track. New Orleans, United States.
2023 - Glitch Sensorium, in collaboration with Kate Reed. Meshmerize Boston. Boston, United States.
2023 - Latent organism. Virtual Gallery. ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference.
2023 - Hyperdream, in collaboration with Taisija Demchenko. Virtual Gallery. ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference.
2023 - Strange loops (brainwave music performance), Deutsches Museum. Festival Der Zukunft. Munich, Germany.
2023 - Wunderblock, in collaboration with Syd Reynal, "Drôles d’objets, un nouvel art de faire" Symposium. Nancy, France.
2023 - Strange loops, CATIA World Summit exhibition, Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung Hamburg (ZLH). Hamburg, Germany.
2023 - Strange loops (brainwave music performance), Copernicus Center. Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023. Warsaw, Poland.
2022 - Wunderblock, in collaboration with Syd Reynal, Teatro del Suono Festival (Paradiso). Trieste, Italy.
2022 - Strange loops, 3DExperience Center München. Munich, Germany.
2022 - Latent organism, Extended Senses Symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery. London, England.
2022 - Strange loops, MakerFaire Sardinia. Olbia, Italy.
2022 - Wunderblock, in collaboration with Syd Reynal, seminar PHITECO (Philosophy Technology Cognition), University of Technology of Compiègne.
2021 - Matka odchodzi, Performance in collaboration with Tomasz Sroczynski. Rózewicz Open Festiwal Radomsko, Poland.
2021 - Latent organism. Creartathon Awards, Collective Exhibition. Gallery Joseph, Paris.
2021 - Latent organism. Creartathon Awards, Collective Exhibition. ENS Paris Saclay.
2019 - Myself is not enough, in collaboration with Félix Ramon. Exhibition "Roaming..." Young Creator Prize. Espace Niemeyer, Paris.
2018 - Shellebrity. Performance in collaboration with Camille Fischer and Laurence Wasser. Gallery Julio Gonzales, Arcueil.

Grants and Prizes
2024 - Top 100 French Inventors 2024 by Le Point Magazine.
2023 - BR41N.IO hackathon @ IEEE brain & g.tec : third prize.
2022 - AI Song Contest : finalist.
2022 - BR41N.IO hackathon @ IEEE brain & g.tec : first prize.
2021 - Dassault Systemes Solidworks Fabricademy : grant.
2021 - creARTathon @ Inria : second prize.

Publications and conferences
2024 - Human Augmentation Summit: "Strange Loops". Ninon Lizé Masclef. Oral Communication. MIT Media Lab. Cambridge, MA, United States.
2024 - Wunderblock : médier la présence par le tangible. S. Reynal and Ninon Lizé Masclef. 2024. In Drôles d'objets, un nouvel art de faire 2023 (DODO'23). Nancy. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.12784088
2023 - Deep Generative Models of Music Expectation. Ninon Lizé Masclef and T. Anderson Keller. 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), ML for Audio Workshop. arXiv:2310.03500
2023 - Symbiotic Co-Creation with AI. Ninon Lizé Masclef. AI & HCI Workshop at the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 2023. DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.26256.17926
2023 - CATIA World Summit: "Art & Science" Talk Panel. Ninon Lizé Masclef and Anne Asensio. Oral Communication. Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung Hamburg (ZLH). Hamburg, Germany.
2023 - Hyperdream : Exploring Hypnagogia Organicity. Ninon Lizé Masclef and Taisija Demchenko. 2023. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI:10.1145/3591196.3593506
2023 - Bio Deepfakes, Mimicry and Memes. Ninon Lizé Masclef and Kaitlin M. Reed. In ACM CHI'23 Workshop on Living Bits and Radical Aminos. Hamburg, Germany.
2023 - Latent Organism: Embodied Co-Creation with AI. Ninon Lizé Masclef and Adrien Chuttarsing. 2023. In Creativity and Cognition (C&C '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA. DOI:10.1145/3591196.3593508
2023 - Living Garment: Interfacing with Microbial Beings. Ninon Lizé Masclef, Batoul Omar Al-Rashdan. In ACM CHI'23 Workshop on Living Bits and Radical Aminos. Hamburg, Germany.
2023 - Latent Organism : a Tangible Interface for 3D Co-Creation with AI, Ninon Lizé Masclef and Adrien Chuttarsing. In Proceedings of Electronic Visualisation and the Arts London Conference. DOI:10.14236/ewic/EVA2023.30
2023 - Strange Loops : Augmenting Feelings, Ninon Lizé Masclef. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2023. DOI:10.1145/3569009.3576190
2022 - Être ensemble : les médiations techniques de la présence, seminar PHITECO (Philosophy Technology Cognition), University of Technology of Compiègne
2021 - User-centered lyrics-to-audio alignment evaluation, Ninon Lizé Masclef et al., in Proceedings of Int. Soc. for Music Information Retrieval Conf. (ISMIR) 2021. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5625688
2019 - De Charlie Au Bataclan : Retour Sur La Médiatisation Des Attentats de 2015, Ninon Lizé Masclef in INA La Revue Des Médias, 2019. link

Peer Review Activities
2024 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2024 - Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Creative AI Track
2023 - Artificial Intelligence for Music Creativity (AIMC) Conference.

Teaching
2022 - Digital Fabrication for Master 2 students. EIT Master School, Fablab Digiscope | LISN | Université Paris-Saclay.
2018 - Max/MSP basics during the course "Interactive and multimedia writing" of Serge Bouchardon. University of Technology of Compiègne

Press and media
2024 - Quand les sciences humaines s'invitent chez les ingénieurs, Le Monde
2024 - Next New Interfaces: Von Apple Vision Pro bis Zungensteuerung "BCI-KI-VR-Anwendung: ReaDream", Page Magazine
2024 - Palmarès des inventeurs 2024 : découvrez les lauréats en crypto, métavers et art numérique, Le Point
2024 - Colors of the Mind: Art and Neurotech | BCI Neuroart with Ninon Lizé Masclef, Neurocareers Podcast
2024 - Emotional Alchemy: How ‘Strange Loops’ Merges Art, Technology, and Emotion, 3DS Blog Dassault Systèmes
2023 - La meilleure formation d'ingénieur post-bac de France se trouve à l'Université de technologie de Compiègne : interview w/France 3 Régions Hauts de France
2022 - Un casque audio qui permet de mieux appréhender ses émotions : interview w/Brut
2022 - Interview de Ninon Lizé Masclef et son masque identifiant les émotions au niveau du cerveau : interview w/Rémi Teston
2022 - Ninon Lizé Masclef, à la fois chercheuse et artiste, Interactions UTC Magazine N°59
2022 - Inside our Innovation Lab : interview w/Dassault Systèmes
2022 - Parole de diplômée : quand l’art rencontre la science : interview w/Université de Technologie de Compiègne.