Igor Deschamps is an independent curator, artistic director, and arts educator in the field of media and interdisciplinary arts in the Rhône-Alpes area, Lyon, France. He is currently leading the artistic direction of the 2013 RVBn Festival, in Rhône-Alpes, a biennial for media art and participatory projects. Deschamps founded MetaLab in 2004, an independent media lab project in Lyon, and was the Director of Le Labo (2009-10), an artist-run center in Toronto, Canada. In addition, he has been teaching the course “Esthetic and Professional Challenges of New Media Arts” in two Cultural Management Master’s programs for the past three years. Deschamps received a BA in Art History, Sociology, and Law, and an MA in Politics and Music Business Management from the Université Lumière (Lyon II), Lyon.