Maxence Mercier is a composer, digital artist and PhD candidate in music composition at the Université Côte d'Azur and the Université de Montréal. His research focuses on the writing spaces of sound spatialisation. He participates in the activities of the XR2C2 IDEX center based at the Méliès campus in Cannes. An experienced practitioner of experimental lutherie and the interpretation of bioacoustic signals, he regularly collaborates with the research teams of the LMA in Marseille and the LIS in Toulon.  He is the creator of the Sound Trajectory software, the sources of which he is sharing as part of his doctoral research. His artistic projects bring the dimensions of sound writing face to face with ecological challenges and encourage the development of virtuous innovations concerned with technological sobriety. He performs as a soloist with piano and electronics and composes for electroacoustics, instrumental ensembles and interactive devices. 

Rosa Cinelli is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Milan, and in Communication Sciences at the Université Côte d'Azur. At the University of Milan, she is a member of the AN-ICON ERC Advanced Research Project. In Cannes, her research is featured within the Extended Reality Research and Creative Center XR2C2. Her thesis focuses on the epistemological paradigm of visual evidence, as framed by forensic visual culture in algorithmic and immersive visual regimes. In 2019, she also obtained a diploma in photography at CFP Bauer in Milan.