A mediactivist, artist-researcher, musician, experimental film maker
and anarchitect, an active member of apo33, Julien Ottavi is involved
in research and creative work, combining sound art, real-time video,
new technologies and construction of electronic devices. An activist in
the free software movement, he participated in the production of Apodio
free multimedia software. He is actually co-director of the
Area10Medialab in London and participates in, and produces, numerous
events such as conventions of researchers, artists and activists, sound
art or multimedia festivals, workshops on free software and DIY
electronics, etc.

Julien Ottavi is part of a generation of audio artists to emerge in
the 90\`s that indicated some of the directions that music and soundart
is taking. While at art school, he organized a series of concerts,
bringing international artists from the experimental scene to Nantes,
drawing touring musicians to movements happening outside of Paris. This
became not just a destination but a nexus for collaborations. This
resulted for example in the group Formanex to perform graphical scores
of electro-acoustic music, and in Apo33, an artists collective to
facilitate, nurture, and disseminate creative audio practice. In this
way, Julien represents the energy and initiative of a present day
artist – activist through practice, organizing as performance,
publishing as networking, open source and open aesthetic. This fluidity
of working across boundaries of style and role are seen in his music,
physical with computer, performative and reflective.