Mélanie Courtinat (1993) is an award-winning artist and art director based in Paris.
Considering video games as a major medium, she focuses on their extraordinary immersive properties, and seeks to push back their limits.
The outcome, crafted through the use of digital tools, results in CGI images and films, Interactive experiences, Virtual and Augmented reality. 

As an artist, her personal work is consistently being shown worldwide in cultural institutions, galleries and museums, from Tokyo to New York.
As an art director, she works on commissioned projects for clients in the Luxury, Fashion, Culture & Music fields.

Mélanie also teaches video game theory at Écal in Lausanne, virtual reality at Beaux-Arts de Paris and frequently conducts lectures and workshops in an academic setting.


[SELECTED CLIENTS]
LVMH
CARTIER
JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER
DOLCE&GABBANA
ORVEDA
VOGUE CZECHOSLOVAKIA
UBISOFT
TÉTIER BIJOUX
GROUPE MAZARINE
CENTRE PHI
DIXON
JENNIFER CARDINI
AGAR AGAR
MANSFIELD.TYA
[CONTACT]            contact@melaniecourtinat.com
[SOCIALS]             @melanie.courtinat


[SHOWS + SCREENINGS]
UPCOMING
• Gray Area, San Francisco

2024

HEK Special Guest, Liste Art Fair Basel
• Netflix and chill, New Galerie, Paris
Final Girl, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
Anticipation Festival, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris
Linoleum Animation Festival, Kyiv
NIFF Extanded, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
• Night of ideas, Villa Albertine, Jersey city
Distraction - Gaming Session, Confort Mental, Paris
MAX3MIN Festival, Milan
Biennale NOVA_XX, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris

Vivre l'œuvre - Voyage aux frontières de l'art immersif contemporain, Musée d'art de Pully
Me and who?, Le port des créateurs, Toulon
Open factory, Le Centquatre, Paris 
Néo-matérialités, Le Cube Garges, Garges-lès-Gonesse

2023

The House of Pain, New Galerie, Paris
DOQUMENTA, Querétaro
Competencia VR, Festival de Cortos, Bogotá
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon
Transmoderna, Artsdistrict Brooklyn, New York
Anidox, Viborg Animation Festival, Viborg
Festival européen du film fantastique, Strasbourg
Nuit blanche, Le Consulat Voltaire, Paris
Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb
Jeden svět, International human rights film festival, Prague
It’s dangerous to go alone!, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers
Festival Côté Court, Pantin
Animation First, New York
International Film festival, Rotterdam
Smart Fipa Doc, Biarritz
• Prenons rendez-vous, Meyrin
Issue 5 Group Show, Studio Magazine, Zurich

2022
La Biennale di Venezia (Mostra), Immersive selection, Venice
Photo Mode, Ideal Glass Studios, New York
Hyperscapes, Kornhausforum, Bern
Revolution V52, Caen + Marseille
Geneva International Film Festival, Geneva
The Art of Play,  3537, Paris
Octobre Numérique, Arles
London Film Festival (BFI), London
DOK Neuland, Leipzig
Transmoderna, NTX Museum, Amsterdam
BLON Festival, Klaipėda



2021
• REFRESH #4, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich
Oslo Night, House of Electronic Arts, Basel
Palais Augmenté, Le Grand Palais, Paris
Current New Medias, Santa Fé
NewImages Festival, Paris
Originelles, Galerie Charlot, Paris
Recto Vrso, Laval

2020
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona

2019
Summer Show, Galerie Lily Robert, Paris
LVMH Pavillon, Paris
NewImages Festival, Paris
Devenirs Terrestres, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris

2018
La Biennale d’art contemporain, Lyon
La Totale, Studios Orta, Boisy-Le-Châtel
Tokyo Game Show, Tokyo
Nordic Games, Malmö
FILE, Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo
Les rencontres du Septième art, Lausanne
VR Arles Festival, Rencontres d’Arles
Huis van de Vlaamse film, Brussels

2017
Paris Electronic Week, La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
NASSCOM India, Hyderabad

2016
When objects dream, Salone Del Mobile, Milan
Personne Publique, Galerie Pazioli, Lausanne
Pier 17 opening, San Francisco

[RESIDENCIES]
2024
• Villa Formose Immersive,
Taiwan
• Atelier Grand Nord XR
(as a mentor), Montréal
Résidence Evil II, (as a mentor), l’Abri, Geneva

2023
Résidence Evil I, (as a mentor), l’Abri, Geneva

2022
• Digital Playgrounds, Villa Albertine, New York


2021
Imprudence residency for speculative design, Paris
La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz

2018
Fabbula VR residency, Barcelona

[LECTURES]
2024
Foward Festival, Berlin
Internet Horror, Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
Table ronde, Musée d’art de Pully
Table ronde, Mapping Festival, Geneva
Développer un modèle économique durable et innovant dans les arts numériques, Women in Digital by KIKK Festival, Namur
Chaillot Expérience : Anthropocène, Chaillot, Paris
Don’t be afraid of video games!, Swiss interactive media design day, St. Gallen

2023
Beyond sound, vision, Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam
Semi marathon, Worldbuilding opening, Centre Pompidou Metz
Playing Narrative, Serbian games association, Belgrade
Artist talk, Immersity 6, Angoulême

2022
Hyperscapes, Kornhausforum, Bern
Photomode in video games, Ideal Glass Studios, New York
Faire monde, Octobre Numérique, Arles
Video Games, beyond entertainment, 3537, Paris
Total Conversion, Galerie Forde, Geneva
Keeping up with web3 creation, Meta Panel, Paris

2021
Visual Contagions through the Lens of New Media, University of Geneva
Connecting with others, Grand Palais, Paris

2020
Artist talk, Synthesis Gallery, Berlin
Engaging the audience in virtual reality, Vlaams Audiovisueel fonds, Brussels

2018
Virtual reality for creation, Rolex Forum, Lausanne
Materials of virtual reality, VR Arles Festival, Arles

2017
Representations of female characters in video games, Unite India, Hyderabad


[TEACHING]
2024
• Class patron, Master Immersive design & experience (IDE), GOBELINS, Paris
• Teacher, history of video games, ECAL, Lausanne
• Teacher, real-time game engines and virtual reality, Beaux-Arts de Paris
• Workshop, real-time game engines and virtual reality, Bachelor Camera Arts, Lucerne School of Design Film and Art, Lucerne
• Artist talk, EICAR, Paris
• Workshop, A Visual Artist's Introduction to Building Worlds in VRChat, Kill Screen gallery, Los Angeles
• Workshop, real-time game engines, Schule für Gestaltung, St.Gallen
• Diploma projects review, Master video games, ICAN, Paris

2023
• Teacher, history of video games, ECAL, Lausanne
• Teacher, real-time game engines and virtual reality, Beaux-Arts de Paris
• Artist talk, Amsterdam Fashion Institute
• Artist talk, Lucerne School of design, film and art, Lucerne
• Workshop, real-time game engines and virtual reality, Master Photography, ECAL, Lausanne
• Workshop, Digital presence, Master Fashion Image, Institut Français de la mode, Paris
• Workshop, Artistic direction, Bachelor Plasticien FX, EICAR, Paris
• Diploma projects review, Master + DSAA Image media éditorial, École Duperré, Paris
• Thesis projects review, Bachelor Media interaction design, ECAL, Lausanne

2022
• Teacher, history of video games, ECAL, Lausanne
• Artist Talk, Master Fashion Image, Institut Français de la mode, Paris
• Artist talk, Master Virtual reality, University of the Arts, London

2021
• Teacher, history of video games, ECAL, Lausanne
• Artist talk, Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich
• Artist talk, Académie de Paysagisme de Versailles

• Workshop, augmented reality, Bachelor Graphiste jeux vidéo, GOBELINS, Paris

[JURY]
2025
Support fund for digital experiences, Cineforom, Switzerland

2024
Support Fund for Videogames (FAJV), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, France
Support fund for digital experiences, Cineforom, Switzerland
Prix Émergences, La SCAM, France

2023
Support Fund for Videogames (FAJV), Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, France
Support fund for digital experiences, Cineforom, Switzerland
Digital experimentation & innovation awards, Le Club des Directeurs Artistiques, Paris
Art Games Jam, Octobre Numérique, Arles
• Virtual reality selection, Sehsüchte Film Festival, Potsdam-Babelsberg

2022
Photo Mode exhibition, Ubisoft, New York
Future Is Sensible Award, Geneva International Film Festival, Geneva