Biography

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Celia Baptiste is a graphic designer, a movie maker and a digital artist. Her art is driven by her curiosity and interest in technologies and emotions. Through her projects, she tries to question the society and precisely the new technological evolution’s issues. Art, for her, is the perfect means to make the spectators experiment questions and stakes. Whether she uses videos, installations or design, she likes to venture multiple fields and discovers new forms of creation to share a message with the spectators.

 

Celia Baptiste was born in 1996. She grew up near Lyon in France, and started to study information and communication at the Savoy University between 2014 and 2017. After these three years, she moved to Bordeaux and began a master’s degree in digital project’s conception. Since September 2018, she is part of a digital creation master’s degree in Toulouse.

 

Since 2014, Celia has created many different projects. In 2015, she worked on a short movie called Exaltation. A year later, she created an interactive installation named The Bait and exhibited in Chambery. During her year in Bordeaux, she was the director of Has art also started its digital revolution?, a documentary that deals with the links between art and new technologies. She was involved in a collaborative project named Utopian Topography, an installation that was exhibited in Toulouse in 2019. Her personal project, Sensitive Jellies, an interactive installation about future interfaces, was exhibited several times in 2019, like for the FabLab Festival in May and also for the Week of science at the beginning of October.

 

In 2016, Celia’s first professional experience in her area of expertise was at the World VR Forum, a company and a festival of virtual reality based in Geneva, Switzerland. During this internship she flew to China to manage the WVRF booth and the volunteers during the Shanghai International Film Festival in China. At the end of the SIFF, she came back to France, in La Rochelle, to pursue this experience at the Sunny Side of the Docks festival. The following year, she decided to live an experience abroad and she spent a three-month internship in Sweden, precisely in Stockholm. Over there, Celia worked as graphic designer at The Apartment, a creative design studio producing videos, installations, packaging and advertisements. In addition to the improvement of her English level and her graphic skills, this trip has been a major personal experience in her life. During her master’s degree in Bordeaux, she worked as a graphic designer for a digital association where she created communication support and conducted workshops with children. She also had the chance to participate in an artistic residency during a week in Berlin. From February to July 2019, she worked as communication assistant for the TheatredelaCite, the National Dramatic Centre of Toulouse. Within these six months, Celia has developed her skills in communication, teamwork and media relations. Working in a cultural structure such as a theatre and promoting performing art was a very rewarding experience for her.

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For the future, Celia would like to found her own creative studio and develop projects in different forms. The projects would be addressed to a large audience through educational, fictional and artistic projects. She wants to pursue her goal of questioning technologies and future issues.