ABSTRACT
An interview with the writer and financial technologist Elie Ayache by artist Roman Vasseur on the ramifications for the visual arts of Ayache’s work on probability, contingency and matter in the financial markets and the implications of this work for the visual arts.
Notes on contributors
Elie Ayache is a Co-Founder of ITO 33, a company providing products and services to the financial industry, and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He has eight years of experience as a volatility trader. He published The Blank Swan at Wiley in 2010 and The Medium of Contingency at Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Roman Vasseur is an artist and lecturer living and working in London, last exhibiting solo at Cubitt Gallery, in 2013. He lectures, teaches and publishes in the UK, Europe and the USA and has contributed to conferences and panel discussions at Tate Britain and the ICA. Vasseur is currently completing a practice-based Ph.D. at Goldsmith’s College, London.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.