Esther Bouquet is an artist, graphic designer and researcher. Working across performance, publication, installation, and writing code as much as poetry, she critically examines how (new) technologies have profoundly transformed the way we live, work, communicate, and even dream.
Her work has been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, MAIF Social Club, Radical Networks, Rhizome World among others. She is a Fondation Lagardère Digital Creator Fellow, and has been awarded residencies at the School For Poetic Computation, Les Storygraphes, Le Bel Ordinaire, LaMezz, and Woodward Residency.
“Playful, absurd, and satirical, e-x-t-r-a-c-t.me is a live streamed shopping experience and performance à la QVC. It builds from EMHA, a series of performances where I collect people’s data via paper forms and then negotiate the value of their information based on prior respondents’ data. It also stems from my weird obsession with the capitalistic world of home shopping. At CultureHub, I will create and sell “packages” of my personal data: screen time, browsing history, locations, purchases, from the past day, week, month, year. And just like a QVC segment, viewers will be able to purchase datasets live. ”