Sofia Taipa is a visual artist using sculpture and installation to explore the intersection of technology and materiality. By translating data through matter, Sofia deconstructs the boundaries of the numerical body and the black box of modern technological systems. Her practice-based research investigates the phenomenology of individual and collective identity, exploring how we perceive and inhabit symbiotic spaces. Sofia positions algorithmic systems not as sterile or neutral tools, but as aesthetic and political devices. Through this lens, her work questions the operational logic of computational intervention, building on the hidden structures that shape contemporary human experience.
Sofia Taipa is a visual artist using sculpture and installation to explore the intersection of technology and materiality. By translating data through matter, Sofia deconstructs the boundaries of the numerical body and the black box of modern technological systems. Her practice-based research investigates the phenomenology of individual and collective identity, exploring how we perceive and inhabit symbiotic spaces. Sofia positions algorithmic systems not as sterile or neutral tools, but as aesthetic and political devices. Through this lens, her work questions the operational logic of computational intervention, building on the hidden structures that shape contemporary human experience.
SELECTED EXHIBITONS
UPCOMING
Topologia: Muralhas e Memória, Faro, PT (September 2026)
2025
Platforms Project, Tobacco Factory, Athens, GR
APT: Thresholds, Monmouth Court, London, UK
Thresholds of the Unseen, Enclave 5 Gallery, London, UK
Manifold 2.0 Staff Exhibition, Goldsmiths, UK
xCoAx 2025, 13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Dundee, UK
Prémio A Arte Chegou ao Colombo, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, PT
[Entre paredes] No fim de um lugar, Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra, PT
2024
Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, Museu de Lamas, PT
Topology, Hypha Studios Paddington, London, UK
Corrente de Ar Volume IV, Beato Innovation District, Lisboa, PT
Computational Arts Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
Agora: a place of gathering, Arthub Studios, London, UK
Dissection, Hypha Studios Stratford, London, UK
2023
Digital Design Weekend, Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum, London, UK
Computational Arts Degree Show, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS
Invited author and artist in Penser l’intelligence artificielle, ArTec École Universitaire de Recherche, Paris, FR [2026]
First author in Being Within, xCoax, V&A Dundee [2025]
Honourable Mention in prize A Arte Chegou ao Colombo: Na Era da Inteligência Artificial, PT [2025]
Finalist in prize Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, PT [2024]
MFA Computational Arts Scholarship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK [2023]
First author in Disclosed eyes: An Interactive Installation on the Impact of Hypervigilance, UXUC Journal [2020]
Academic Excellence Award, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, PT [2018]
EDUCATION
MFA Computational Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK [2022-2024]
BA Multimedia Art (Major), Interaction Design (Minor), Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa, PT [2017-2020]
Informatics and Multimedia Engineering, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, PT [2018-2022]
RESIDENCIES
Topologia: Muralhas e Memória, Faro, Algarve, PT [June 2025]
Agora: a place of gathering, ArtHub Studios, London, UK [April 2024]
OTHER
Co-founder of Threadsafe artistic collective