Bio (long)

Simone C Niquille is a designer and researcher. With technoflesh Studio they produce films and writing that investigate computation as the new optics. Their work is concerned with vision technologies, the images they make and the worlds they create - from computer vision, 3d animation, computational photography to synthetic training datasets. Their work advocates for non-binary technology and against machine learning as a tool to validate and instrumentalize assumptions and reduce reality.

In 2023 Niquille initiated the parametric truth Lab at the Master Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, a space to annotate, document and review software beyond its immediate functionality and productivity, and since 2023 they coordinate a course on technology and architecture at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. Niquille is a fellow in digital storytelling at the Dutch Film Festival for 2024-2025. In 2025 they joined the graduate school ARTILACS as PhD researcher at the HFBK Hamburg and are teaching a seminar on critical software at the Klasse Digitale Grafik.

Their work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2016 they were a research fellow of the Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and received the Talent Development Grant of Creative Industries NL. In 2018 they were the recipient of the Housing The Human grant and a commissioned exhibitor for the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale with the work ‘Safety Measures’ on the entangled history of computer generated imagery, ergonomic software and standardised human measurements. They received the 2020 Pax Media Art Award and were a 2020 resident at La Becque while joining ECAL’s Master in Photography department as guest lecturer for the research project Automated Photography.

Niquille was a 2021-2023 Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Center for Architecture and a contributor to [permanent beta], an online research platform by the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

They hold a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Design from the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. technoflesh Studio is based in Amsterdam NL.