Chloé Desaulles is a NYC-based, Alsatian raised visual director, researcher and new media artist. Her practice specializes in Storytelling Innovation, Research + Development & Interactive Design for emerging technologies.
Artistically, my practice focuses on using new tools to tell old stories about people, habits and environments. Pursuing documentary capture via tinkering, dissecting and reassembling, I am interested in constructing frameworks where computation elevates analog processes, exploring the digitization of heritage, natural environments and the concept of home. My work has been shown in internationally, such as the NYC Independent Film Festival, Freiburg Kunsthalle, Venezia Shorts, CultureHub RE-FEST, Dallas International Film Festival or the Academy-Award eligible Raw Science Film Festival.
Commercially, I specialize in creative direction for immersive and interactive for clients in fashion, music, entertainment and tech. I most recently come from The New York Times R&D where I researched the future of visual and immersive storytelling. I am now directing, consulting and designing through my independent studio Touch Response for clients such as SONY Music, RCA Records, Versace, Megan Thee Stallion, Apple‘s Special Projects Group,
The American Museum of Natural History, 032c & Van Cleef & Arpels.
I hold an interdisciplinary degree in Neuroscience and New Media Art from Carnegie Mellon University and have been a guest lecturer at Columbia, School of Visual Arts, NYU, and Barnard. Please ask me to give more talks in 2025!
︎FESTIVALS, EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
Dallas International Film Festival (Official Selection for ‘Hangover’, 2025)
Venezia Shorts (Official Selection for ‘Hangover’, 2025)
HEART, Sacred Screenshots (Group Show, 2024)
CultureHub RE-FEST (2023)
New York Independent Film Festival (Official Selection for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
Raw Science Film Festival (Academy Award eligible, Finalist for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
Dumbo Film Festival (Semi-finalist for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (Residency, 2020)
Bryght Young Things : Crew Love Showcase (BYT, 2020)
Dara Birnbaum Award (Exceptional Work at the Intersections of Art, Media & Technology, 2019)
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art (Group Exhibit, 2019)
Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier (For ‘Dedications I-V,’ Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2018)
Freiburg Kunsthalle (Group Exhibit, 2015)
Dallas International Film Festival (Official Selection for ‘Hangover’, 2025)
Venezia Shorts (Official Selection for ‘Hangover’, 2025)
HEART, Sacred Screenshots (Group Show, 2024)
CultureHub RE-FEST (2023)
New York Independent Film Festival (Official Selection for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
Raw Science Film Festival (Academy Award eligible, Finalist for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
Dumbo Film Festival (Semi-finalist for ‘Dedications I-V,’ 2020)
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (Residency, 2020)
Bryght Young Things : Crew Love Showcase (BYT, 2020)
Dara Birnbaum Award (Exceptional Work at the Intersections of Art, Media & Technology, 2019)
Miller Institute for Contemporary Art (Group Exhibit, 2019)
Frank-Ratchye Fund for the Arts at the Frontier (For ‘Dedications I-V,’ Studio for Creative Inquiry, 2018)
Freiburg Kunsthalle (Group Exhibit, 2015)
︎TALKS & LECTURES
SVA Guest Lecture (2025)
DAZED Archive Live: Physical Communication Across Digital Culure, Chloé Desaulles in Conversation with Yehwan Song (2025)
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program Guest Lecturer (2024)
Drew University Guest Lecturer (2024)
Columbia University at Barnard College Guest Lecturer (Movement Lab, 2023)
Frog Design Artist Talk (On the Essence of AI: Demystifying and Deconstructing the Practice of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts’, 2023)
Mercedes-Benz FutureProof Talk (On the future of storytelling, 2023)
Depthkit Workshop (FRSCI, 2020)
Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Society, 2019)
Artist Talk (’The Tale of the Brooklyn Pastram’, Processing Day, 2019
SVA Guest Lecture (2025)
DAZED Archive Live: Physical Communication Across Digital Culure, Chloé Desaulles in Conversation with Yehwan Song (2025)
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program Guest Lecturer (2024)
Drew University Guest Lecturer (2024)
Columbia University at Barnard College Guest Lecturer (Movement Lab, 2023)
Frog Design Artist Talk (On the Essence of AI: Demystifying and Deconstructing the Practice of Artificial Intelligence in the Arts’, 2023)
Mercedes-Benz FutureProof Talk (On the future of storytelling, 2023)
Depthkit Workshop (FRSCI, 2020)
Phi Beta Kappa (Honor Society, 2019)
Artist Talk (’The Tale of the Brooklyn Pastram’, Processing Day, 2019
︎PRESS
Citation (The New York Times, 2025)
Citation (The New Yorker, 2025)
2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics (Nov) (The New York Times, 2022)
2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics (Nov) (The New York Times, 2022)
Spatial Journalism Interview with Chloé Desaulles (Lab RTVE, 2022)
WWD NY Fashion Week Coverage (Women’s Wear Daily, 2022)
Small Victories Photobook (Boooooom, 2021)
Great Escapes: Creative Stylist Rachael Wang’s Favorite Short Films (Penta, 2020)
Director Interview with Chloé Desaulles (NYC Independent Film Festival, 2020)
BYT Crew Love 04 (Brygth Young Things NYC, 2020)
Creating Infinite Bad Guy (IYOYO / Google Creative Lab, 2020)
Citation (The New York Times, 2025)
Citation (The New Yorker, 2025)
2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics (Nov) (The New York Times, 2022)
2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics (Nov) (The New York Times, 2022)
Spatial Journalism Interview with Chloé Desaulles (Lab RTVE, 2022)
WWD NY Fashion Week Coverage (Women’s Wear Daily, 2022)
Small Victories Photobook (Boooooom, 2021)
Great Escapes: Creative Stylist Rachael Wang’s Favorite Short Films (Penta, 2020)
Director Interview with Chloé Desaulles (NYC Independent Film Festival, 2020)
BYT Crew Love 04 (Brygth Young Things NYC, 2020)
Creating Infinite Bad Guy (IYOYO / Google Creative Lab, 2020)
︎SELECT CLIENTS
032c • American Express • Apple • Bad Binch Tong Tong • Benefit • Brooke Candy • The Brooklyn Museum • Buck Design • BY FAR • Charlotte Rose Benjamin • CFDA • Furla • Google • H.E.R. • Hennessy • IDEO • Korres • Kourtney Khardashian • Local Projects • Louis Vuitton • Lucky Daye • Mercury Records • Moncler Genius • Museum of the City of New York • Ogilvy • RCA Records • Ritz-Carlton • Samsung • Something Special Studios • Snapchat • SONY Music • The State of New York • Studio Institute • Synopsis Project • Tag Heuer • The Coding Train • The MET • The New York Times • Thousand Fell • Thrival Innovation + Music Festival • UNA MIA • Valentino • Van Cleef & Arpels • Versace
032c • American Express • Apple • Bad Binch Tong Tong • Benefit • Brooke Candy • The Brooklyn Museum • Buck Design • BY FAR • Charlotte Rose Benjamin • CFDA • Furla • Google • H.E.R. • Hennessy • IDEO • Korres • Kourtney Khardashian • Local Projects • Louis Vuitton • Lucky Daye • Mercury Records • Moncler Genius • Museum of the City of New York • Ogilvy • RCA Records • Ritz-Carlton • Samsung • Something Special Studios • Snapchat • SONY Music • The State of New York • Studio Institute • Synopsis Project • Tag Heuer • The Coding Train • The MET • The New York Times • Thousand Fell • Thrival Innovation + Music Festival • UNA MIA • Valentino • Van Cleef & Arpels • Versace
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