Alexandre Michaan


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Université de Saint-Etienne

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2023

    Alexandre Michaan is a media art conservator based in Paris. After graduating at the National institute for cultural heritage in France, and a stay at the conservation laboratory of LIMA in Amsterdam, where he worked on obsolete software-based artworks for CD-ROM, he has been since 2013 specializing in the preservation of audiovisual artworks threatened by obsolescence. He is currently working as a researcher, on a PhD focused on documentation procedures for the preservation of media artworks at Université de Saint-Etienne, and worked in the past years at Centre Pompidou on the digitization of video collections, and the conservation study of Chris Marker’s video and computer-based installation Zapping Zone.

Last Known Location:


  • France

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