Philippe Quéau
Director of Information and Informatics Division, UNESCO
Diplomed Engineer from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris).
Diplomed Engineer from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Paris).
Diplomed (D.E.A.) in Sciences of Information and Communication from Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
Philippe Quéau is a specialist of information and communication technologies (ICT), with a particular interest in computer graphics, virtual reality, televirtuality and cyber-communities. He founded the Image Research Group of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA), and the INA's MediaPort, giving on-line access to numerous audiovisual data, sounds, images from French public television archives. Philippe Quéau has been regularly called for expertise on behalf of the European Communities Commission. He was until 1998 a member of the Research Council of the French Ministry of Culture. Since 1996, he has been the Director of Information and Informatics Division, at UNESCO.
Philippe Quéau wrote three books analysing the technical evolution and artistic implications of computer imaging, artificial intelligence and virtual reality : - ELOGE DE LA SIMULATION - De la vie des langages à la synthèse des images - Ed. Champ Vallon/INA - 1986 - METAXU : Théorie de l’Art Intermédiaire - Ed. Champ Vallon/INA - 1989 - LE VIRTUEL - Vertus et vertiges - Ed. Champ Vallon/INA - 1993 . He participated in a dozen of collective books, the last published being: -Megamaschine Wissen- 1999- Editions Campus. Frankfurt/Main-New York -Art @ Science- 1998- Editions Springer. New York -Cyberworlds- 1998- Editions Springer- Tokyo -The Treasure of Computer Graphics- 1998- Editions Justsystem- Tokyo