Mathilde Lavenne is a french director and a visual artist. She lives and work in France between Paris and Lille. In 2011, she began focusing her artistic approach on emerging technologies and digital tools by writing short films and creating digital installations. In 2016, she graduated from Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, after two years of research with scientists and engineers. She completed several residencies in France and abroad, notably at the French Academy in Madrid, the Casa de Velazquez (2019), a short research residency at CERN in Geneva(2019) at the digital art center Sporobole in Quebec (2022), and 100West in Corsicana  Texas (2023). She is currently working on a residency project with the physicists of the Ipanema Laboratory at the Synchrotron Soleil Particle accelerator.  At the International city of Arts in Paris (2020), she collaborated with the Mexican composer Diana Syrse on a commission from National Sawdust for the Beth Morrison Project in New York. Her films and installations have been exhibited in museums, art centers and selected in many festivals (International Film Festival Rotterdam, TACOMA Film Festival in Washington, Tampere Film Festival in Finland). Her work has received numerous national and international awards and distinctions, including the Golden Nica in animation at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria in 2018, the foundation François Schneider Contemporary Art Prize, and the Best Short Film Award at the Ann Arbor Festival in the United States (2019). In 2024, she has been selected for the prestigious Villa Albertine Residency program in Texas (US).