Loup Cellard
- médialab (Sciences Po) (médialab)
- Melbourne Law School [Melbourne]
Présentation
In 2020, Loup Cellard finished his PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (University of Warwick, UK). From 2021 till 2023, he was a postdoctoral research fellow working on the ecological implications of the digital. His work took part in the Melbourne Law School node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (based at RMIT, Melbourne). His research is situated in Science & Technology Studies (STS) and materialist approaches to media studies, and focused on subsea telecom cables, AI environmental impacts as well as public sector algorithmic decision-making. Starting in September 2023, he is now researcher at the French coop Datactivist where he is helping organisations explaining and documenting their algorithms. Loup is the author of scientific articles in journals like New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values and Revue d’Anthropologie des Connaissances. His work has been featured in major French media such as Le Monde, Radio France, l’ADN, Acteurs Publics, Reporterre, Socialter and cited by the German NGO Algorithm Watch. Loup presented his work to policy makers such as the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism team (SAPEA) as well as the French Commission for access to administrative documents (CADA).
Publications
Publications
Shaping the Mediterranean Gateway to Europe: Undersea Cables, Data Centers, and the Politics of Digital GrowthAmerican Association of Geography Annual Meeting, Mar 2025, Detroit (Michigan), United States |
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When data accumulation challenges spaces, technologies and labor in the data center industry4S/EASST, Aug 2024, Amsterdam (NL), Netherlands |
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A sea of possibilities - forgotten cables, ecological protection and corporate accountability in the Mediterranean Sea6th Nordic STS Conference, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Jun 2023, Oslo, Norway |
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Coal Mines, Submarine Bunkers and Undersea Cables: Exploring Data Centers’ Infrastructural Ecologies in Marseille6ème journées suisses d'histoire, Société suisse d'histoire; Département d'histoire générale de l'université de Genève, Jun 2022, Genève (CH), Switzerland |
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Mapping transparency issues in design and technology. Wikipedia Case Study.Interface Politics Conference, Apr 2016, Barcelone, Spain |
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The Trajectories Tool: Amplifying Network Visualization ComplexityDigital Humanities Conference 2016, Jul 2016, Kraków, Poland, Poland |
Matérialités environnementales du numériqueRecherches en sciences sociales sur Internet/Social science research on the Internet, 15, 2025 |
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Algorithmic Transparency: On the Rise of a New Normative Ideal and its Silenced Performative ImplicationsLeuven University Press. This Obscure Thing Called Transparency. Politics and Aesthetics of a Contemporary Metaphor, 2022, 9789462703254 |
7 gestes pour performer dans le théâtre du socialProse Postérieure. Le courrier électronique d’une instructrice d’aérobic sauvage et grotesque, 2018, 9782955293645 |
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Provocations heuristiques : expéditions critiques dans les territoires des revues scientifiques électroniquesLes Presses Universitaires de France. Design et innovation dans la chaîne du livre, , 2017, 978-2-13-078883-6 |
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Interface DétournementThe Techno-Galactic Guide to Software Observation, 2018 |
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4 enseignements d’un projet de médiation aux données et algorithmesDatactivist. 2025 |
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4 enseignements d’un projet de médiation aux données et algorithmes : le cas d’un outil de suivi de l’artificialisation des sols.Datactivist. 2024 |
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Les demandes citoyennes de transparence au sujet des algorithmes publics.Université de Warwick. 2019 |