François LespinasseCA/QC
François Lespinasse is a transdisciplinary researcher and artist from Montréal studying the productive frictions between the humanities and Neuro-AI. After completing an undergraduate and master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience, he is now a doctoral student conducting research-creation in anthropology at Concordia University, where he is affiliated with the Milieux Institute and the Hexagram Network, with support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His research designs spaces in which technology mediates expressive and contemplative practices, shedding light on novel forms of embodied, distributed meaning-making across human and non-human agents.
As a social Neuro-AI designer, Lespinasse treats transdisciplinarity as a necessary transgression, a way of building resilient imaginaries and generative futures. He moves between academic labs and artistic communities to provoke debates, dismantle the walls of specialization, and invite publics into discussions that shape what comes next.
His work unfolds in the friction between flesh and code. Repurposing neurotechnologies and generative AI, he builds living artworks imbued with the public's voice and embodied presence, observing how consciousness spills into non-human systems. He crafts cyber-ecosystems as vectors for more-than-human conversation, where algorithms and living systems act as interlocutors rather than tools.
