Sophie Dumaresq

Sophie Dumaresq, is an interdisciplinary artist who brings perspectives of absurdity, queerness and humour to creative and critical robotics. Working across photography, video installation, sculpture and performance, their work explores what it is to try and share joy, love, laughter and communicate in a universe filled with beings whose brains, existence and or bodies are built inherently differently to that of your own. Her artistic practice seeks to bring voices of difference to the emerging cultures of robotics and computation. Their work explores the politics of care and mischief making through symbiotic cycles of consumption, destruction, and creation, which demonstrate how as a species we relate, show empathy, learn, and evolve with and within our surrounding environment. Sophie graduated from ANU honours first in her year in 2023, winning the Peter and Lena Karmel Anniversary award for the most outstanding graduating body of work from the Australian Nation University’s School of Art and Design.