Human Stories
DJ OOF: The Man Who Collects Light and Mixes It Back
Long before “multimedia artist” became a job title anyone could claim, OOF — born Jaïs Elalouf — was already doing the thing itself: mixing sound, image, text, and other people’s attention into something that could only exist live, in a room, for the length of a show. He started DJing in 1992. Three decades later, the pseudonyms have multiplied — Zzouf, Lunivers, JAÏS, and...
Human Stories
Artist G: From the Neuroscience of Bias to the Architecture of Presence
Before he was an artist, Artist G studied the brain. Born in Lebanon in 1971, he holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and for years he taught cognitive science and art theory at a university in Beirut — a position from which he watched, at close range, how the mind constructs bias, category, and belief long before a person is aware of choosing anything at...
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Le Gang du Zabuton at INALCO 2026 | Human Light
Thursday afternoon, March 26, 2026. 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris 13th arrondissement. That day, the halls of INALCO — the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations — were filled with Japanese from morning on. The Journée du Japon, the annual event organised by the student association Dejima. Koto, taiko, calligraphy, matcha — people who love Japanese culture, friends of performers, families and...
Communities & Initiatives
Culture Is Oxygen. — Wilson Claude Balda and His Small Laboratory in ...
A few minutes from Saint-Paul station, at 17 rue François Miron in Paris’s 4th arrondissement, a large carriage gate opens onto a courtyard. Beyond it, a gallery. Rare Gallery Paris 4. The sign is modest. But inside, three spaces across two floors hold paintings, photographs, sculptures — and sometimes music. Quietly, or with energy, they surround whoever enters. The person who built this space,...
Human Stories
David Beaulieu — An Actor’s Life, on Stage and Screen
The Light of a Storyteller “Paris is my city.” He says it simply, without ceremony. And walking alongside David Beaulieu through the streets of Paris, you understand exactly what he means. David is a French actor based in Paris. Trained at the Cours Florent, one of France’s well-known drama schools, he first took to the stage at 16 and acted until 28. Life then...
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