François LespinasseCA/QC
François Lespinasse bends the rules of disciplines. He is a PhD student at Concordia University in Tio'tia:keh/Montréal, where he practices contemplative, ethnographic research-creation, supports the Hexagram network, the Milieux Institute, and the Applied AI Institute.
Lespinasse looks into the culture of the Neuro-AI hub known as Montréal and acts as a cybernetic storyteller for my peers. He crafts interactive installations and conducts performative inquiries into consciousness and creativity, using speculative design methodologies with feedback systems driven by GenAI and neurotechnologies. He likes to say that he designs queer cyber-ecosystems as transdisciplinary spaces of improvisation with embodied, analog and computational instruments.
With partners at KAIROS Collective, Lespinasse developed a framework for incubating creative processes in our more-than-human society, deliberately blurring the lines between academic inquiry and open-source business practice. They tailor their offering to the needs of their clients through consulting, commissions, research, education, and well-being intervention services: for them to take better care of the World.
