The ACROE-ICA group, ACROE for Association for Creation and Research on Expression Tools and ICA for Artistic Creation Engineering, covers the same global research, development and pedagogy project in computer music and computer animation. ACROE was founded in 1976 by Claude Cadoz, Annie Luciani and Jean-Loup Florens at the Grenoble Polytechnic Institute (Grenoble INP) with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The ICA laboratory as a research unit of Grenoble INP was established in 1999. ACROE is the EASTN-DC network’s coordinator.