Biography
Marine de Dardel, MSc D–ARCH ETHZ, is an architect, visual artist and PhD researcher at ETH Zurich’s Department of Architecture and a member of the research project “The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in collaboration with the Lucerne University of applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU, School of Design, Film and Art, CC Visual Narratives) and the Università delle Svizzera Italiana (USI, Faculty of Communication, Culture & Society & the Academy of Architecture).
Her doctoral research centred on the Grotesque Body focusses on architectural and audiovisual semiotics, corporeality and their iconography. Ranging from philosophy to technology, combining both analogue and digital media, her practice sounds out content and form, specifically focussing on radical fringes and questioning strait-laced conformism. Can the repressed, the silenced or the invisible still claim any legitimacy in a world increasingly governed by representation?
Studied architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and Creative Coding at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK); held a position as a teaching assistant and research fellow at the ETH Zurich Voluptas Chair for Architecture & Design, design studio and publications lead, seminar lecturer (2018-2024); has further taught various workshops experimenting with architectural language and computational narratives (ENSA Paris Malaquais, FR / Royal Academy of Fine Arts x UAntwerp, BE); has benefited from an artist grant and residency at the Centre for Contemporary Graphic Arts (AGGC), Geneva.
