Presenting Our 2027 Arts in the Age of AI Jury

In 2025, Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education in the United States, launched its new residency program, Arts in the Age of AI, at the AI Action Summit in Paris, with an announcement by French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati. This initiative, funded by French-American patron and technology leader Fidji Simo, will host eight artists and culture professionals who incorporate artificial intelligence into their work, in the United States.   

This year, Villa Albertine will welcome four creators for two-month research and exploration residencies. The creators will receive individualized artistic and professional guidance, tapping into the full AI ecosystem, including tech companies, universities, research centers, and cultural institutions. They will carry out their residencies in the location most relevant to their research project among the 10 cities where Villa Albertine has offices, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. 

For 2027, the participants will be selected by a jury of French and American AI professionals, including Refik Anadol (New Media Artist, Filmmaker, and Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence Aesthetics), Pierre Zandrowicz (Director and Digital Artist, Co-Founder of French studio Atlas V), Marcella Lista (Art Historian and Chief Curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of the New Media Collection), and Jazia Hammoudi (Program Director at Onassis ONX).

Our 2027 Jury

Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol (born in 1985 in Istanbul) is a Turkish-American media artist and director, recognized as one of the pioneers of data aesthetics and artificial intelligence. Based in Los Angeles, he leads Refik Anadol Studio, a multidisciplinary workshop exploring the intersections of art, science, architecture, and immersive technologies. Holding a Master of Fine Arts in Design Media Arts from UCLA, where he also teaches, he creates monumental audiovisual environments and “data sculptures” from scientific, urban, or environmental datasets. His installations have been showcased in institutions and public spaces worldwide, from the Sphere in Las Vegas to projections on the architecture of Casa Batlló in Barcelona, redefining the boundaries of post-digital architecture.

Pierre Zandrowicz

Born and raised in Paris, Pierre Zandrowicz is a director and filmmaker now based in Brooklyn, whose work lies at the intersection of cinema, photography, and new immersive storytelling forms. He began his career in digital content at Première Heure agency, before directing acclaimed experimental films and videos screened at international festivals such as SXSW, Sundance, and Tribeca. A pioneer of VR fiction in Europe, he cofounded Atlas V,  a Paris-based studio renowned for pushing the boundaries of VR/AR narrative through award-winning collaborations with partners such as Meta, Arte, and BFI. Among his notable works are I, Philip, Ex Anima Experience, The Dawn of Art, and On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World), one of the first VR films ever broadcast on European television. 

Zandrowicz continues to explore the aesthetic and philosophical potential of immersive technologies, integrating AI tools into his image and narrative creation processes. His recent projects include Paradoxes a science-fiction series developed with Arte, and the experimental film A Search of Time presented at the Runway AI Film Festival 2023, reflecting his ongoing investigation into the dialogue between human perception, temporality, and machine-generated imagery.  

Marcella Lista

Marcella Lista is an art historian and curator, head of the New Media Collections department at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris since 2016. Specializing in interdisciplinary practices, video, sound, dance, performance, and digital art, she conducts critical research on aesthetic forms from the origins of modernity. After coordinating contemporary creation and architecture programs at the Louvre Auditorium, she joined Centre Pompidou, where she develops the collection and curates exhibitions such as The Shape of Time and Observations, dedicated to major works and new media collections. A 2011 Villa Médicis resident for a research project on dance, modernity, and abstraction (1910–1930), she is also the author of several reference books on Paul Klee, Walid Raad, and Ryoji Ikeda.

Jazia Hammoudi

Jazia Hammoudi is a digital artist, curator, and program director whose practice bridges artificial intelligence, immersive media, and cultural innovation. Based in New York, she serves as Program Director at Onassis ONX, a leading art-tech incubator launched by the Onassis Foundation and NEW INC, fostering artists at the intersection of XR, AI, and performance. A graduate in art history and museum studies, with experience at institutions like the Newark Museum and TCNJ Art Gallery, Hammoudi has curated immersive exhibitions such as TECHNE: Homecoming and selections for Tribeca Immersive 2025 in partnership with Onassis ONX. Her work emphasizes field-building through residencies, strategic partnerships (including MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and Lincoln Center’s Collider Fellowship), and support for 85+ member artists worldwide, questioning hybrid identities across biological, mythological, and digital realms. As a member of PACT (Planetary Art Culture Technology), she advances global collaborations addressing planetary challenges through culture and technology.

Contact:

Camille Jeanjean, New Media Officer – camille.jeanjean@villa-albertine.org