Esther Bouquet

Working across performance, publication, installation, and writing code as much as poetry, she critically examines how (new) technologies have profoundly transformed the way we live, work, communicate, and even dream.

She often translates invisible systems—algorithmic processes, data collection, targeted advertising—into physical spaces and material forms. She playfully reassembles her digital traces into a catalog of targeted advertisements; absurdly archives, prints (and disseminates) her own browsing history; and satirically writes and designs a "Bible" based on the Terms and Conditions of the digital services she uses. Her works, through collaging, printing, and reenacting, bear witness to the passage of time in a strange and poetic manner, while simultaneously seeking to capture the immediacy of information, its evolution, accumulation, and fragility.

Following her interest in experimental publishing formats, she has recently expanded her research to mini-FM radios and transmission art. Drawn to its potential as a participatory and performative form of engagement, she is also curious about the nature of consent within a context where one never truly knows who might be listening.

She is a 2020 Fondation Lagardère - Digital Creator Fellow. She has been awarded residencies at the School For Poetic Computation (New York), Les Storygraphes (Toulouse), Le Bel Ordinaire (Pau), LaMezz (Lyon), Woodward (Queens) and more recently LARPA (Brooklyn). Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as Centre Pompidou and Maif Social Club (Paris), Radical Networks and Rhizome World (New York), Cité du Design (Saint-Étienne), Festival DN[A] (Grenoble) and The Commons (Cape Town).

She holds a BFA in Interior Architecture (Ensaama, Paris), a MDes in Graphic Design (LAAB Rennes), and a MFA in Media Arts (Esad Saint-Étienne). She has taught workshops in various high schools and was an Adjunct Professor + Visiting Lecturer at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.