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Philippe Quéau (FR)
Director of the Information and Informatics Division, UNESCO
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Quéau is Director of the Information and Informatics Division of UNESCO and a specialist in new information and communication technologies, with a particular interest in computer graphics, virtual reality, televirtuality and cyber-communities. In 1975 Queau received a degree in Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and continued his engineering studies at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (Paris), which he finished in 1977. In 1978 he received a Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies en Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).
As a young engineer, in 1980, Queau founded the 'Groupe de Recherche Image' at INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel), to develop 3D computer graphics software for modelling and rendering. This group later formed a joint venture called Thomson Digital Image, one of the world's leading computer graphics software companies. In 1981, Queau organized the first Computer Graphics Conference at Arc-et-Senans in France, followed in 1982 by the foundation of 'IMAGINA', the International Forum on New Images of Monte-Carlo, which has now become the most important European annual event covering the fields of computer graphics, virtual worlds and special effects.
After posts of Research Engineer and Chief Engineer in 1993 he finally became Director of Research at INA. Until 1988, he was a member of the Research Council of the French Ministry of Culture and also the European Communities Commission has regularly called upon Quéau for his expertise in technology. Since 1996, Quéau is Director of the Information and Informatics Division of UNESCO. He has written three books in which he analyzes the technical evolution and the artistic implications of computer imaging, artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Publications
Eloge de la Simulation: De la Vie des Langages a la Synthese des Images (Champ Vallon/INA Publishers, 1986)
Metaxu: Theorie de l'Art Intermediaire (Champ Vallon/INA Publishers, 1989)
 Le Virtuel: Vertus et Vertiges (Champ Vallon/INA Publishers, 1993)
Co-editor: Art & Science (Editions Springer, 1998)
Co-editor: Cyberworlds (Editions Springer, 1998)
Co-editor: The Treasure of Computer Graphics (Editions Justsystem, 1998)
Online
UNESCO (Communication and Information Sector)
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/index.shtml
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