News | February 2025

Agathe Simon will shortly be taking part in an Arts & Sciences round table organized by INSA Rouen at the National Dramatic Center of Normandy in Rouen, France. Her video Microcosmos will be shown next March at the Safra’numériques digital arts festival in Amiens, France. She has just been named laureate of an ADAGP grant for artistic research time. She has also been awarded an immersive creation fund by the CNC (French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image) for Celestial Attraction, the immersive and interactive installation in her Cosmos cycle. In July-August 2023, she has traveled to Argentina for the shooting of this cycle, with the support of the DRAC Île-de-France – French Ministry of Culture. Cosmos also includes a feature film selected for the ‘Documentary Workshop 2022’ at the Fémis (French National Institute for Professional Image and Sound). Since March 2024, this film is fiscally sponsored by Maysles Documentary Center (NYC).

In March 2024, Simon has given a performance on artificial intelligence at the Michel Journiac gallery of the Sorbonne School of Arts. Following a presentation at the XVIII International Architecture Biennale in Venice and at the ‘Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine’ in Paris as part of the Ball Theater project, the sound creation Year 1 has recently been broadcast at the Chicago Architecture Center as part of the ‘Night of Ideas 2024’, an event organized by Villa Albertine / French Institute. After being selected for the VdR–Film Market (‘Visions du Réel’ international documentary festival), the film The Travel of Felix was included in the official 2023 selection of the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival.

An associate researcher at the ACTE Institute (Arts Creations Theories Aesthetics), Simon was recently a guest on #1257, the new podcast from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne university. She recently published the article “Diving into the unknown: digital media and the creative process in extreme environments“ in the journal #1257 of the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. She is currently developing a new year of her documentary workshop and her cinema workshop at Sorbonne University.