CV Alexandre Monnin

Since 2006 I've been pioneering the developpement of the philosophy of the Web and the philosophical study of the architecture of the Web with my colleagues Harry Halpin and Yuk Yui. 

I am currently a researcher at Origens Medialab, working on projects related to the Philosophy of the Web, Contemporary Art, the Anthropocene and the end of digitality. There, I'm leading a 1,5 years project funded by the Fondation de France to establish new relationships between art and science. I'm also teaching at the ESCC Business School in France on digital matters. 

I hold a PhD in Philosophy from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (summa cum laude). My thesis (began in Decemer 2006 and defended in April 2013) was dedicated to the Philosophy of the Web. The members of my jury were: Brian Cantwell Smith, Antoine Hennion (examiner ), Richard Rogers, Bruno Bachimont (examiner ), Fabien Gandon, Christiane Chauviré (supervisor) and Sandra Laugier (president).

I've been a member of the network of experts of Etalab ,​the open data agency established under the authority of the Prime Minister in France for four years (2013 - ).

Before that,  I was: 

• Researcher at Inria​ Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, for 3 years, holding a Starting Research Position within the WIMMICS team . I was the first philosopher ever hired by the Institute (2014-2017) ;
• Lead Architect of Lafayette Anticipation's (the Galeries Lafayette ​Foundation for contemporary art) forthcoming digital platform, Re-Source, between (2014 - 2016) ;
• Fellow at the Ecole nationale supérieure de photographie d'Arles (June 2016) ;
• Fellow at the Digital Cultures Research Center (DCRL) of Leuphana Universität (Lüneburg) during the 2015 winter semester ; 
• Senior consultant for UNESCO ​on controversy mapping and Semantic Web technologies (2014), 
• Junior Fellow​ at IKKM during the 2013 summer semester (Bauhaus Universität, Weimar) ; 
• Resarch associate with the Edelweiss team at Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée. I was the initiator of the French DBPedia project between the French Ministry of Culture, Inria, Wikimedia France  (2011-2014);
• Head of Web Research at Centre Pompidou's Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI, 2010-2013)​​ ;
• Chief librarian at Ecole  nationale des chartes (2009) ;
• Digital Humanities research contractor at Ecole des chartes (2007-2008) ;
• PhD student at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2006-2013).

Between September 2013 and November 2014 I both initiated and coordinated an official collaboration between Inria and the Ministry of Culture as part of the Ministry’s digital policy agenda regarding the future of the Web and the Web of data.

I also co-founded the W3C "PhiloWeb" Community Group in 2012 and the "Web Web We can Afford" one in 2016..

Some notable publications: I've been the co-editor of a special issue of the international journal Metaphilosophy in 2012 ("PhiloWeb: Toward a philosophy of the Web"), republished in an extended version by Wiley-Blackwell in 2013 under the title Philosophical engineering: toward a philosophy of the Web. In August 2014, I co-edited a special issue of the journal Intellectica entitled "Philosophy of the Web and Knowledge Engineering".

For more information on the various projects I worked on, see https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandremonnin