Mehdi Toutain-Lopez is a lighting designer primarily for dance, with German choreographers Isabelle Schad, Christina Ciupke and Anna Till. In 2004, he joined the Collectif MxM as video designer, and he is now involved in the research and development of programming strategies software and hardware. Over the course of his creative career, he has created methods by which live filmed images and graphic universes can be rendered in real time and projected or integrated into mobile sets. This benefits other members of the Collectif by simplifying the work of the technical operator as well as maintaining the sensitive interaction between the performer and the audience that is essential to live performance.