Aymeric Mansoux

Aymeric Mansoux is a Senior Lecturer in the Master's program Media Design & Communication at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. As an internationally recognized artist and researcher, his practice bridges open source software development, computational art, and critical media studies. He co-developed tools like PureDyne Linux and contributed to the Pure Data audiovisual environment, reflecting his hands-on approach to technology and creativity.

His research explores tensions between open source principles and artistic practice, examining topics like:

• Copyleft licensing's cultural implications
• FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) as artistic methodology
• Permacomputing sustainability constraints
• Fediverse network architectures

His doctoral work at Goldsmiths (University of London) analyzed how open source ideologies transform art production. Publications critically examine software licensing as cultural artifacts and computational systems as artistic mediums, with recurring themes of digital autonomy, collaborative creation, and systemic critique.