Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau is an artist and a philosopher born in Paris, France. He is a stage and screen actor, director, and writer, as well as a photographer, a singer, and a musician. He also does research on philosophy, including aesthetics and philosophy of art for the C.N.R.S. (the French National Center for Scientific Research), currently at the PRISM Laboratory. Biography Training years Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau was trained in research in Paris and got his Ph.D. from the E.N.S.T. He worked first on voice and language technologies, and more particularly on systems that recognize people from their voice. He was also trained in linguistics, phonetics, and psychology. He then got his first position with the C.N.R.S. (the French National Center for Scientific Research) in Lyon, France, to work in a research lab specialized in Linguistics. Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau was also trained as an artist. He studied music, and more particularly piano and singing, with various private teachers. He co-founded the vocal group Ut Musica Poesis, a group that gave many concerts of Middle Age and Renaissance music. He sang the tenor parts with the group for six years. He also sang the tenor parts in the Vocal Group Françoise Herr for two years. He studied photography at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rennes, and drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While he was in Lyon, he co-founded the Padrivantia Company. The company gave several concerts and created a musical, Diabolus in Musica. Ivan also took acting classes with Élisabeth Saint-Blancat at the Théâtre des Clochards Célestes, in Lyon. He was then trained as an actor and a director at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York for three years. Professional development Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau then took a new position with C.N.R.S. in a research lab doing research on Art (The ACTE Institute, a joint lab between C.N.R.S. and Paris 1 Sorbonne-Pantheon University). He founded and headed (from May 2010 to December 2015) a research department in Aesthetics of Performing and Visual Arts (EsPAS). He also founded and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal p-e-r-f-o-r-m-a-n-c-e. He founded his theater company, the Aloha Company, and produces and directs shows regularly. He continued to play regularly on stage and in film. He wrote his first plays and screenplays, and led a screenwriter circle for several years. He founded his production company, Aloha Films, to produce and direct his first short films. Theater, opera,