Olivain Porry is an artist and a SACRe doctoral candidate at the EnsadLab research laboratory of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. By repurposing existing objects and technologies, his work explores the roles of both the viewer and the creator, the subject and the object. He explores the relationships between humans and machines through the connections that form between the audience, the artwork, and the environment. From 2019 to 2022, he is conducting his doctoral thesis on the form of robot collectives as a modality of artistic practice. His ongoing research, which includes the “Lies Language Models” project, focuses on the operativity and interactivity of writing in the age of large language models. In 2024, he co-founded Éditions du Respirateur and published “Arafed Dictionary,” a dictionary in the form of data poisoning; he then embarked, with the “Synthetic Syncretism” project during a residency at the Villa Albertine (2026), a project on artificial creolization in dialogues between AI systems. Olivain’s writings on the modalities of artistic practices through the lens of contemporary technologies have been published in several academic journals and books. His work is recognized for its innovative approach; he has won awards such as the Pulsar Prize (2018), as well as grants from institutional calls for proposals. He has contributed to various research projects and exhibitions in France, the United States, and Sweden, notably at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, the Gaîté Lyrique, the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, and the Maison des Métallos, and is currently represented by the Avant-galerie Vossen in Paris.