Hi, I’m Nino Filiu

I am a tech artist exploring novel digital experiences enabled by emerging technologies.

What if a sculpture got scared when you got too close? How does it feels to control a video game with DJ hardware? What do the bioelectricity of plants sound like? Can the web be used as a medium for interactive narratives? How do NPCs feel when you delete their game from your computer?

I spent the past few years asking questions like these in the shape of video games, interactive art, visual art, and more; either as solo works or as collective works with Distraction.

Instagram / Bluesky / Twitter / Itch / Github / IFDigital

Staggered
A playable poem about shock states and the death of the child self / 2025
Aggregate
A queer video game exploring the concepts of desire paths, personnified machine learning, and cruising / With Distraction Collective / 2024
Am I The Problem?
A first person walking sim where players face troubling confessions from real 4chan and reddit stories / With Distraction Collective x Residence Evil / 2024
Supermosh
The world's first browser-based datamosh editor / 2021
TDJ - Where Is My Angel
CGI and VFX for a video clip directed by Melchior Leroux / 2025
Quests
Visuals for Inès Cherifi's EP made inside Unreal Engine / 2025
Spark Plugs
A series of 3D renders exploring ideas of urban supernaturality / 2025
whereareu.online
A video game coded in 48h using the web as a medium for interactive storytelling / 2024
smytten.blog
The sinister story of an american teenager told using the medium of a blog post with hackable hidden pages / With Distraction Collective x Residence Evil / 2023
Sacrifice
A 3D video installation using DJ decks as a gamepad / Personal work / 2023
Cooking for William
A horror visual novel disguised as a cozy cooking game / With Melanie Courtinat & Pierre Moulin / 2023
First Contact
An interactive installation questioning our interpretation of exotic consciousness / 2023
Cum As You Are
An installation by Arvida Byström where a robot makes love to itself / 2025
But The Flesh Is Weak
A serie of installations and performances involving plants, dance, fashion, electronics, and sounds / With Samuel Fasse & Amosphère / 2022
As If My Phone Cares About Museums
A sculpture that gets scared when you get too close, with visuals evolving based on ultrasonic sensory input / With Paul Creange / 2021
Room XYFT
An immersive installation involving audioreactive visuals and modular synths / With Aleksey Larionov / 2022
AmbientCG Material Importer
A Blender extension downloaded 16K times / 2024
Body Heat
An interactive light work by Paul Créange exploring the relation between the presence of the body in space / 2023
The Color Of The Wind
An in situ LED sculpture by Paul Créange which color changes based on the wind direction and speed / 2020

Works as a developer

2024: AmbientCG Material Importer A Blender extension downloaded 16K times

2018-now: open source contributor (Firefox, MDN, Vue, Poimandres, Snowpack, & more)

2018-now: Stack Overflow active member (18K+ reputation)

2020-2024: Software engineer @ Toucan Toco

2022: coded GettorBot, a Signal chatbot to broadcast Tor bridges in countries where Tor relays are blocked/monitored. w/ Sonia Veselova. 1st place at the Demhack hackathon 4

2022: coded ESGrep, a software that parses a program source code and locate interesting patterns

2021: coded Supermosh, the world’s first browser-based datamosh editor

2020: coded OAClient, making calls to OpenAPI servers simpler and safer

2019-2020: Software engineer @ 360Learning

2019: co-founder @ Sensafety

2018: Front-end developer @ Synomia

Performances

2023-08-17: DJ set b2b DJ Sexy for Jedismieux @ Caves Saint Sabin

2023-06-24: DJ set & VJ set with custom-made 3D renders for Acme @ L’International w/ TFlux, Legit Girl DJ, Schadenfreude (Mind Matter & Gewaltem)

2023-06-09: Live coding visual set @ 36 Degrés x Galerie Charlot’s Psych.e w/ Accalmie

2023-04-18: Generative art performance for the opening of Alfred Courmes @ Espace Niemeyer

2023-01-21: VJ set for Services Generaux’s 5 year anniversary at La Station w/ Lauren Duffus, Violeta, Urumi, Broodoo Ramses, Darko, Astrid Gnosis

2022-12-16: VJ set for Acme @ L’International w/ Legit Girl DJ, Termination 800, TFlux, Kamaji

2021: Projections of custom-made generative visuals for Woops’s parties @ the Serpent à Plume

2022-10-16: Podcast for Structure Records

2022-09-24: DJ set @ Les Souffleurs

2018-03-30: Curvature EP

& also

2025: Talk at A MAZE about the parisian art game scene

2023 (x2), 2024: Residencies at Residence Evil

2024: talk at QueerJS about making art in the browser

2024: talk at the Pully Museum of Arts about art and video games, with Yatoni Roy Cantu, Mélanie Courtinat, Pierre Moulin

2024: 3D works for M6

2024: generative art visuals for a music festival (NDA)

2024: generative art visuals for Camp Claude

2023: EP cover art & 3D animations for Camp Claude

2022: First Assistant Director on Claude Payen de Lapierre’s short film “La Fugue”

2022: light technician for Myst and Possession for shows involving Nina Kraviz, MRD, and many more

2022: fanzine cover for Pas Vu Pas Pris

2021: Logos & poster design for Rorshar

Education

Erasmus @ Berlin Institute of Technology. Courses on machine learning, cybersecurity, quantum computing

Exchange student @ Eurecom. Courses on cybersecurity, computer networks, robotics

Master in Computer Sciences @ Telecom Paris. Courses on computer architecture, computer architecture, optics

MOOCs @ Stanford Lagunita. Courses on statistics and machine learning

MPSI/MP* @ Lycée Charlemagne. Courses on algebra, statistics, mechanics, quantum physics, electronics

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