Simone C Niquille is a Swiss designer and researcher based in Amsterdam NL. Through technoflesh Studio she produces films and writing that investigate computation as *the* new optics. Her work is concerned with vision technologies and the images they make - from computer vision, 3d animation, computational photography to synthetic training datasets.

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Simone C Niquille is a Swiss designer and researcher based in Amsterdam NL. Through technoflesh Studio she produces films and writing that investigate computation as *the* new optics. Her work is concerned with vision technologies and the images they make - from computer vision, 3d animation, computational photography to synthetic training datasets.

Her work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2016 she was a research fellow of Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam and received the Talent Development Grant of Creative Industries NL. In 2018 she was recipient of the Housing The Human grant and commissioned contributor to the Dutch Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018) with the work ‘Safety Measures’ on the entangled history of computer generated imagery, ergonomic software and standardised human measurements. She received the 2020 Pax Media Art Award and is a 2021-23 Mellon Researcher at the Canadian Center for Architecture and currently a contributor to [permanent beta], a research platform by the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

She was a resident at La Becque in 2020 and joined ECAL’s Master in Photography department as guest lecturer for the research project Automated Photography. In 2023 she initiated the parametric truth Lab at the Master Information Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, a space to annotate, document and review software beyond its immidiate functionality and focus on productivity.

She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in design from the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam.

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