Co-founder of EP, Philosopher and composer Pauline Nadrigny specializes in environmental aesthetics, sound art, and metaphysics. As an Associate Professor of Aesthetics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, she wrote an extensive number of papers in both French and English on art and realism, electroacoustic music, noise, field recording, sound ecology, and ecocriticsm. She is the author of several books, including Musique et philosophie au XXe siècle (Classiques Garnier, 2015), The Most Beautiful Ugly Sound in the World (with Catherine Guesde, MF, 2018), Le Voile de Pythagore (Classiques Garnier, 2021) and Sonder le monde (MF, 2025). In 2024, she was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal for her work on the philosophy of sound and listening. Her work as a composer combines ambient, noise, folk, and electroacoustic music. She published two EPs and gave numerous live performances. Throughout the years, she developed close connections with many significant figures in today's musical scene. As EP's editor, she is in charge of projects in general philosophy, sound arts and environmental aesthetics.
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Co-founder and CEO of EP, Wilfried Laforge is an art theorist. He received his PhD in aesthetics at Pantheon-Sorbonne University and teaches aesthetics at School of Visual Arts in NYC. His work as a critical theory expert focuses on contemporary art history and the relationship between art and philosophy. He is about to publish a book on the subject, bringing together the testimonies of some of the foremost artists of our time: Art Oriented Philosophy, The Philosophical Subtext of Contemporary Art, as well as an essay on Adorno and twentieth-century aesthetics. He organized two major international conferences and edited two books that address this topic : À la frontière des arts (Mimésis, 2018) and L'Écho du réel (Mimésis, 2020). Following a visiting fellowship at Columbia University, he made long-term connections in the art world and collaborate with American aesthetics scholars. His theoretical work pairs with his career as an art advisor.
As EP's editor, he is in charge of artists' writing and interviews, art history, architecture, new media, and the art market.
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