Art Insight: History

Serge Lasvignes was born in Toulouse, France in 1954. He holds an agrégation in literature and is a former student of the École nationale d’administration (class of 1989). Beginning his career at the Conseil d’État, he went on to become Director of General and International Affairs and Cooperation at the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education, Research and Professional Integration from 1995 to 1996, before becoming Director of Legal Affairs at the same ministry from 1996 to 1997. He was subsequently made Director at the General Secretariat of the Government (1997-2006) before becoming General Secretary of the Government from 2006 to 2015. Serge Lasvignes is President and CEO of the Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, and President of the Boards of the Bibliothèque publique d’information (Bpi), the Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (Ircam) as well as that of the Centre Pompidou-Metz since April 2015.

Born in 1970, in Austria, Martin Honzik is an artist and the director of Ars Electronic Festival. He studied visual experimental design at Linz Art University, and received a master’s degree in culture and media management. Martin Honzik participated in ‘OK Center for Contemporary Art’ as one of the members, and joined Ars Electronica Futurelab in 2001. He has been the director of the Ars Electronic Festival since 2006.