Loup Vuarnesson

Interactivity Researcher / XR Creative

Standing at the crossroads of science, immersive design and meditation practice @ All Here
https://allhere.org/

Exploring bodily self-consciousness mechanisms @ EPFL's LNCO
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lnco/

Part of the Hypnoscope collective and co-creator of "La Tisseuse d'Histoires"
https://hypnoscope.fr/

PhD in design - SACRe / PSL University
http://sacre.psl.eu/doctorat/


Flow & Presence - Game Development - Multisensory Design - Natural Interfaces - Creativity


Projects

La Tisseuse d'Histoires

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A multimodal improvisation performance, mixing VR, storytelling, puppeteering @ Drancy - 2022

Shadows & Seams

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Artistic residency in Museum of Naive Arts @ Laval - RectoVRso 2022

Articulations

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Multi-user research project about co-creativity in diminished reality

Dancing Shadows

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Workshop and performance around an "augmented" shadow theater. A puppeteer and an immersant dialogue together using only silhouettes of physical and virtual objects, projected onto a shared white screen.

Arena by EMOTIC

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ARENA by EMOTIC: a multisensory immersive room, with a 180° screen, 7.1 sound system, haptic and olfactory feedbacks

Roswell : Autopsie d'une controverse

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An immersive and interactive virtual reality installation, based on the photogrammetric reconstruction of spaces from film archives.

PEP : Perception Espaces Partagés

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Study on perceptive and cognitive processes involved during shared experiences in online digital spaces (PSL, Collège de France, 2015-2107).

Abyss'halle

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Photorealistic 3D reconstitution of Halle de la Madeleine, with a surprising underwater atmosphere...

ACADEMIC

Selection of Papers

2024 - Loup Vuarnesson, Bruno Herbelin, Olaf Blanke

2023 - Loup Vuarnesson

2021 - Loup Vuarnesson, Dionysios Zamplaras, Julien Laroche, Joseph Dumit, Clint Lutes, Asaf Bachrach and Francois Garnier

2021 - Julien Laroche, Loup Vuarnesson, Alexandra Endaltseva, Joseph Dumit and Asaf Bachrach

2019 - Loup Vuarnesson

2017 - Francois Garnier, Alain Berthoz and Loup Vuarnesson


MISCELLANEOUS

• Artistic Events

2025 - La Tisseuse d'Histoires - Festival Chroniques Friche de la Belle de Mai - Marseille FR
2024 - La Tisseuse d'Histoires - Festival RectoVRso Le Quarante - Laval FR
2019 - La Tisseuse d'Histoires - Sortie de Résidence Centre Culturel - Drancy FR

• Conferences & Talks

2025 - SIGGRAPH Asia Tokyo - Japan
2025 - SIGGRPAH Denver - USA
2022 - « Co-présence créative en réalité virtuelle - SEMINAIRE Phiteco 2022 » UTC Compiegne - Paris FR
2019 - Symposium « Virtual Creativity, Collective Reality » ENSAD and CNRS Pouchet - Paris FR
2019 - « Tour d’horizon sur le design adaptatif » IrisLab Systeme U - Carquefou FR
2019 - « Where Bodies Meet » Centre Culturel Suisse - Paris FR
2019 - « Les Rencontres Artec » Centre d’Art - Enghien les Bains FR

• Workshops & Performances

2021 - Workshop « Lapin Blanc » - Larret FR
2019 - Symposium « Virtual Creativity, Collective Reality » ENSAD and CNRS Pouchet - Paris FR
2019 - « Moving Humans with CREATE » Tate Modern - London UK
2019 - « Les Rencontres Artec » Centre d’Art - Enghien les Bains FR

• Awards

2019 - Best Poster Award @ HUCAPP19' - Prague CZ