Donatien Aubert is an artist, a researcher and an author. His theoretical and visual work aims to problematize contemporary anthropological mutations. He is particularly interested in the philosophical, scientific and political heritage of cybernetic paradigms, and their resilience in movements such as ecology and transhumanism.
He is a graduate of the École nationale supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy and of the Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université (where he completed a PhD in comparative literature). He was also a researcher for three years at EnsadLab (the Laboratory of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs).
Donatien Aubert creates hybrid works (videos, interactive installations, virtual reality programs, sculptures created by computer-assisted design and manufacturing, art & science projects), balancing, in the service of an epistemological and historical perspective, forms that owe as much to the classical culture of curiosity (scientific and literate) as to that of contemporary technoscience.
Donatien Aubert's work is based on perceptual means that have been reinforced by digital technologies (generative design, interactivity, immersion), using a visual grammar capable of putting into tension a baroque and romantic aesthetic with more minimal and industrial influences.
He has been exhibited in several biennials in France (Némo, Chroniques) and his work has been presented internationally (Taipei, Kyoto, Lausanne). He won the CNAP photographic commission "Image 3.0" in 2020. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Odile Ouizeman Gallery, Paris, in 2021.
He is published in Paris by Hermann Éditions (Vers une disparition programmatique d'Homo sapiens ?, 2017) and has also participated in scientific works, notably L'art de la mémoire et les images mentales, published by the Collège de France.
