Jean-Louis Paquelin is an artist who teaches and does research at the Villa Arson in Nice. He studied computer science, and has since participated in numerous research projects in various fields such as linguistics, sports, sustainable development or education. His interdisciplinary contributions are supported by his skills in computer science, his artistic work, and his great curiosity for a wide variety of subjects. His artistic production began in 1995. It was inspired by a taste for original contemporary productions in art and music. It was also the result of chance encounters with visual artists and musicians such as Paul Devautour, Jérôme Joy and Luc Martinez. In 2001 he was recruited by the Villa Arson, which was then an experimental school in art and research, to work alongside the teaching staff and the artists in residence in order to establish a studio for the creation of digital art. Today he teaches programming as an artistic medium and as a tool for building a critical and constructive relation to the digital world. His knowledge of computer science and his artistic practice have led him as a matter of course to become interested in generative art. He has contributed to the project G-Art with the first version of the library Python hoca (Higher-Order Cellular Automata).