For this final episode of the High-Tech Intermission, host Tarek Diouri–Adequin gets to look back on some of the episodes of the show and gives you an outlook on the future trends of the world of technology that will get people talking.

He notably tackles the topics of AI in arts, the bans of various forms of online content for children, the creation of data centers in France, before quickly going over some of the topics he believes will matter very soon, including betting and robots.

In this episode of Turning Points, Patricia Killeen chatted with Jack Hogan. Jack is an artist, music producer and lapsed architect. Born in 1986 in Waterford, Ireland, their work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places. Life can be hard and seem meaningless. Art and music are good ways for Jack to make meaning or find beauty in that meaninglessness. Their diverse artistic investigations, in terms of subject matter and media, are driven by intensive studies, but the end result is always deeply personal and subjective.

In addition to Stream, their ongoing solo exhibition of drawing, photography and video at 15 Beautreillis Gallery in Paris, Jack has had solo exhibitions at Performance Epistemology Gallery in Taipei and Flux Factory in New York. They will have a solo presentation at Sukhdev Sandhu’s Colloquium for Unpopular Culture in New York in May this year, and a further solo exhibition at Starling in Limerick at the end of the year.

Jack has shown work in the ICA London, Whitney Museum, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin, New York University, Athens Biennale, Starling Limerick, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Hellerau Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Artists Space New York, Documenta Fifteen, Cork International Film Festival, Zurich University of the Arts, Spectacle Theater Brooklyn, aemi Dissolutions Dublin, Ballhaus Ost Berlin, Conditions Croydon, Sydenham Community Garden, and Beta Biennial Timișoara.

Photo credit: Sara Sassanelli

Produced by Ian Callen

Series produced by Ian Callen

The latest in French sports, with Parker Songco.

School is in session on this episode of Parentalité as hosts Joelle Benoliel, Rachelle Chapman and Meg Gerner chat with our guest Derek Ferguson, Scottish dad and director of The Roaming Schoolhouse.

TRS offers after-school enrichment, spoken entirely in English, for bilingual students. We discuss the evolution of TRS, and its mission to make learning in English fun and engaging. We also touch on some of the particularities of the French education system, and the challenges of getting your child into college/lycée with international sections.

Parentalité is a collaboration between Message Paris, an association helping anglophone parents and caretakers of children connect in Île de France, and World Radio Paris. ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn produced this episode for World Radio Paris.

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Polly Watton sat with Kay Bourgine of CirclesongsParis to find out more about their activities.

In this episode of Lost in Frenchlation, hosts ARBL Murray (Alex Brook Lynn) and Manon Kerjean sit down with filmmaker Vladimir Rodionov at the Luminor Theater during a special Valentine’s Day screening of his romantic comedy Anges & Cie (Angels & Company / Angels Inc.).

Set in a world where everyone has a personal angel, the film treats love like a workplace: angels are assigned “clients,” they follow you through every awkward, intimate moment, and they try (sometimes badly) to steer your life from above. At the center are two almost-lovers who keep colliding and missing each other, while their angels clash like rivals in a buddy comedy. But what happens when a few angels go off-script and decide to let love get messy on its own?

Vladimir breaks down the long road of making a first feature (nearly a decade from idea to release), why he’s obsessed with “high concept” premises you can sum up in one sentence (“what if angels were real?”), and how he built a world where angels operate like a bureaucratic company: hovering behind you, influencing choices, and sometimes giving truly terrible advice.

The conversation goes deeper than the rom-com label: intuition vs. destiny, “signs” that kept him going while the film was hard to finance/cast, whether a darker sequel could exist, and how love can be a surprise that pulls you outside your bubble. They also talk about modern romance in the age of apps (love as an “algorithm” vs. chaos), how movies shape the way we understand love, and what French cinema offers beyond couple-dom: friendship, empathy, and stories for anyone spending Valentine’s Day solo.

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