CHLOÉ DESAULLES IS A CREATIVE DIRECTOR working across SCREEN, STAGE AND INTERACTIVE. Her practice blends RESEARCH, MEDIA innovation AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY for visual storytelling.
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ARLO PARKS “GET GO”
MUSIC VIDEO
2026
AMERCIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2025
MEGAN THEE STALLION
MUSIC VIDEO
2025
MR TOOLS FOR REPORTERS
NYTIMES R&D
2023
CHARLOTTTE ROSE BENJAMIN
MUSIC VIDEO
2025
ALICIA KEYS SHOWPALAST
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2023
LUCKY DAYE
LIVE PERFORMANCE
2024
ERIE BICENTENNIAL
MUSEUM
2024
WORLD CUP IMAGING
NYTIMES R&D
2023
IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM
FOR THE OPEN WORLD
NYTIMES R&D
2023
LEMME
BRANDING
2022
VERSACE SHANGHAI SS21
INSTALLATION
2021
DESIGN PATTERNS FOR MIXED REALITY STORYTELLING
NYTIMES R&D
2025
MISC INSTALLATIONS • FURLA MILAN SS20 • BROOLYN MUSEUM
INSTALLATION
2020
MISC CAMPAIGN FILMS • THE MET • MONCLER GENIUS • ETC
FILM
2020
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Arlo Parks - Get Go Review
STEREOGUM
2026
CitatioN ON CRAFT IN THE AGE OF AI
THE NEW YORK TIMES
2025
CHLOÉ DESAULLES : Artist Profile
INDIE EYE MILAN
2025
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CITATION “TALK OF THE TOWN”
THE NEW YORKER
2025
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Featured FOR ‘Hangover’
PROMONEWS
2025
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2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
the new york times
2022
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Spatial Journalism: Interview with Chloé Desaulles
LAB RTVE, MADRID
2022
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NY Fashion Week Coverage
WWD
2022
Small Victories Photobook
BOOOOOOOM
2021
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Great Escapes: Creative Stylist Rachael Wang’s Favorite Short Films
BARRON’S
2020
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Director Interview with Chloé Desaulles
NYC Independent film festival
2020
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BYT Crew Love 04
Brygth young things showcase
2020
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Creating Infinite Bad Guy
Google Creative Lab
2020
"Toeing the Line Between Eager and Annoying"
school of visual arts, lecture
2025
“Physical Communication Across Digital Culure, Chloé Desaulles in Conversation with Yehwan Song”
DAZED Archive Live, panel
2025
“escaping the algorithm with chloé desaulles”
day one podcast
2025
"Interdisciplinary Translation as Storytelling Agent"
columbia university, lecture
2024
"Immersive Storytelling Devices for a More Intentional World"
new york university itp, lecture
2024
two guest courses on new media
drew university, lectures
2024
two guest courses on machine learning and interactivity for the arts
columbia university at barnard college, guest lectures
2023
“On the Essence of AI: Demystifying and Deconstructing the Practice of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts”
frog design, artist talk
2023
“On the future of storytelling”
mercedes-benz futureprooF, talk
2023
immersive filmmaking workshop & guest lecture
the frank-ratchye studio for creative inquiry at CMU
2021
“the tale of the brooklyn pastram”
processing day, talk
2019
culture hub “new works”
residency
2026
google flow
residency
2026
dallas international film festival, gold winner for “hangover”
festival
2025
young guns 23, shortlist
award
2025
video art & experimental film festival, honorable mention for “hangover”
festival
2025
bogota international film festival, official selection for “hangover”
festival
2025
venezia shorts, official selection for “hangover”
festival
2025
heart gallery, “sacred screenshots”
group show
2024
culturehub refest
group show
2023
New York Independent Film Festival, Official Selection for “Dedications I-V”
festival
2020
Dumbo Film FestivaL, Semi-finalist for “Dedications I-V”
festival
2020
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
residency
2020
Dara Birnbaum Award for “Exceptional Work at the Intersections of Art, Media & Technology”
award
2019
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art
group show
2019
Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier For “Dedications I-V”
grant
2018
freiburger kunsthalle
group show
2015
1:1 TIME AS EVIDENCE FOR PROCESS
ESSAY
2025
HOLDING MY MOTHER ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR
ESSAY
2024
answered interruptions
DIGITAL FICTION
2025
on loving machines
essay
2025
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07 WORLD CUP QATAR 2022 IMAGING FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES R&D
TYPE: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
08/12/2022
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The New York Times Graphics desk and NYTimes R&D teams joined forces to model key moments of the World Cup using machine learning and 3D reconstruction. As FIFA does not allow for any news organization to capture video at the stadium (besides channels broadcasting the games live) our team decided to recreate key actions of the World Cup by 3D reconstructing the scene in 3D from photographs using ICON (Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals). This allowed for a more natural way to experience motion and (inherently spatial) high level sports, compared to still photography. Team : Karthik Patanjali, Mark McKeague, Alexandre Deveaux, Malika Khurana & Or Fleisher.
Here are a list of articles published during the world cup using this technique:
Richarlison, Messi and Pulisic: Three Stunning Goals Frozen in Time
How Pulisic Crafted the U.S. Goal in Its World Cup Opener Belgium’s Long-Ball Goal Sinks a Determined Canada
Weston McKennie Is Going to Want This One BackGermany’s Late Equalizer Revives Its World Cup Hopes Watch Christian Pulisic Send the U.S. Past Iran and Into the Knockout Rounds
New York Times : 2022 Year in Graphics
The method we developed in creating 3D imagery through machine learning became compelling for the World Cup as the New York Times and other media outlets are only authorized to shoot still photography from a single vantage point on-site. The still photography medium however, is not best suited to deconstruct motion, position and gesture in space, which sports journalism benefits from.
Through this method, we were able to extrapolate spatial information from a single photograph, allowing a reader to see the game from different perspectives and gaining more insight into the reality of goal scoring. You can read more about our process in the New York Times R&D research article Modeding Key World Cup Moments with Machine Learning.