She works across video installation, hybrid publishing, photography, and circuit bending.
Her research focuses on the beliefs and superstitions generated by digital technologies, and on how their invisible systems shape the ways we see, interpret, and inhabit the world.
Sophie (1994, Quebec) received a BFA in Studio Arts & Print Media from Concordia University in 2016, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Design from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2022. She is one half of the experimental alternative-pop duo
Renée Calme, based in New York.
Her work has been presented at
ELEKTRA in Montreal,
Nuisance Gallery in New Jersey, and
Vox Populi in Philadelphia. Her publications have been featured at events hosted by
Index Space in New York and the MUU Contemporary Art Center in Helsinki.
In 2024, she published
Spiral Engineering, a speculative reverse-engineering manual published by Quickbooks in New York.
As a designer, she has collaborated with artists and curators on exhibitions, worked with the studio
2x4 on visual identity projects, and served as Design Director of
The Brooklyn Rail.
As an educator, she has developed and taught courses in experimental technology, creative coding, moving image, and typography at Parsons School of Design, the University of Pennsylvania, the School of Visual Arts, Rutgers University, and Index Space. She has also served as a visiting critic at Columbia GSAPP, Bard College, Pratt Institute, and Drew University. For a complete list of courses, visit the
teaching portal.