Ariane Maugery, born in Marseilles, France, in 1979, is an artist in visual arts with strong emphasis on video, sound and special interests at the interface between art and science. In 2007, she defended her PhD and became Doctor of Art at the Université de Provence with her thesis entitled "The instant and the movement. A Dancing body aesthetic. Embodied presence in dancing practices", which was awarded the highest rating, mention très honorable et félicitations du jury.

In 2004-2005, she is the director of a workshop at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. Following the attribution of the Fearless Medi@terranée Prize in 2003, she was in fact in residency there to create Internal Friction, a video, which is the first phase of a video-installation. Ultra-relativistic e-motion, with a dancing movement.
This video-installation has been selected by the Ballet Preljocaj and the
French Physical Society in the context of the World (or Einstein) Year of
Physics under the aegis of UNO and UNESCO for the inauguration (June 2005)
of the “Centre Chorégraphique National de la Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d' Azur” in Aix en Provence.

Ariane Maugery who created her first performance, Cathédrales liquides in 2000, is the author of a dozen of videos; she has participated in several video festivals, exhibitions and conferences.