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Born and raised in Silicon Valley, Douglas Edric Stanley has since emigrated to France where he has been working for the last decade as artist, theoretician and researcher in Paris and Aix-en-Provence. He is currently Professor of Digital Arts at the Aix-en-Provence School of Art where he teaches programming, interactivity, networks and robotics. He has taught several workshops on the production of code-based art and has participated in several international exhibitions and festivals dedicated to digital art: ICC Biennial, Tokyo; Villette Numérique, Paris; Festival Ars Electronica, Linz; Festival Arborescence, Aix-en-Provence; Festival Némo, Paris; Ecoute, Centre Pompidou, Paris; EnterMultimediale, Prague. His interactive force-feedback installation, "Asymptote", produced by the ICC for their 1999 "Interaction" Biennial, won an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2000. He has been awarded several research and artistic grants for the creation of interactive prototypes and artworks. As a researcher at the laboratory LOEIL in Aix-en-Provence he assists many young artists in the production of interactive, generative, and robotic installations. He is currently a PHD candidate of the Laboratory for Interactive Aesthetics at the University of Paris 8 where he explores the evolution of artistic creation in relation to the algorithmisation of the world.