Artist + Game Designer

Stella Jacob is a multimedia artist and game designer based in Paris, France.

Her work explores dynamics of communities, overlapping offline & online worlds, deciphering their rules,edges & similarities.

Graduated from Gobelins school in Game Design, she previously worked for five years in the Virtual Reality field with Diversion cinema She has given lectures on tech ethics at Sciences Po, La Sorbonne, La Villette and more.

Stella Jacob co-founded Medulla studio,and is a member of Distraction collective.



︎︎︎ Email
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ Bluesky



GAME DESIGN & CONCEPT
For authors & studio (Atlas V/Albyon, IKO, Tamanoir)
︎︎︎ ASTRA / ATLAS V
︎︎︎ BABEL / TAMANOIR

TALK & CONFERENCE
Speaking about Tech Ethics & virtual worlds for events, conferences & press.
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Artist + Game Designer

Stella Jacob is a multimedia artist and game designer based in Paris, France.

Her work explores dynamics of communities, overlapping offline & online worlds, deciphering their rules,edges & similarities.

Graduated from Gobelins school in Game Design, she previously worked for five years in the Virtual Reality field with Diversion cinema She has given lectures on tech ethics at Sciences Po, La Sorbonne, La Villette and more.

Stella Jacob co-founded Medulla studio,and is a member of Distraction collective.



︎︎︎ Email
︎︎︎ Instagram
︎︎︎ Bluesky





JUMBOTRON

Inspired by the giant screens in stadiums, Jumbotron is a participatory multi-screen video installation that question the logic of self-staging. This short, festive and unexpected exhibition plays with the excitement of looking at oneself and being visible, like a spontaneous, playful version of the 15 minutes of fame.

︎︎︎ Art.238bis

PARTICIPATORY INTERACTIVE MULTI-SCREEN INSTALLATION, OBS, SHORTCUTS, HOMEKIT.
INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

2025

🎥 🚨



Exhibited at
Jumbotron, Une Folle Époque x Art.238bis, 2025



A LOVE LETTER

An app where wathever you'll write will become "I love you." again and again and again. It's "A Love Letter."made for Valentine’s Day.

APP, SWIFT PLAYGROUND
APP

2025

❤️ 🎁






PLAYING THE GAME
IS LETTING IT EXIST

A narrative game structured as an interview for a day trader position. Market volatility & unethical decisions are part of the offer. But remember that "Playing the game is letting it exist"!

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, DECKER ENGINE, LOW-TECH
VIDEO GAME

2025

📈 🔁



🏆 European Permajam Public Award
📰 Carnard PC




CHEZ LILA

Chez Lila is a short horror movie of a young streamer sharing her progress in game development.

[Trigger warning : Audio elements of violence/child abuse/self-harm/suffocation]


︎︎︎ Residenceevil.ch/Chez-Lila

VIDEO, GAME ART, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
SHORT MOVIE

2024

👧 🖥️


Created during Résidence Evil 2 at l’Abri Genève




DEFENSE MECHANISM

Even in a perfect garden.

︎︎︎ Fu:bar Expo 2023

DIGITAL COLLAGE, GAME ART
DIGITAL COLLAGE

2023

👤


Exhibited at Fubar 2023

Me & Who? TLN Hybrid, 2024



CACHE-CACHE CHEZ ARTHUR

A tiny Bitsy game about kid games & loneliness.

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, MINIMALISM, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
VIDEO GAME

2023

🧒 😐


Created during Résidence Evil 0.5

Exhibited at
Game Session, Confort Mental, 2023

Me & Who? TLN Hybrid, 2024




︎︎︎ FANTHOMES

Fanthomes is a multimedia project around legend-making as a community care practice in the digital age. Legend are the first immersive collective fiction and we should be able to make our own.

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CO-CREATION PROJECT MADE USING VR, 360°, 180° PROJECTION, DIGITAL INTERVENTION ON GOOGLE MAPS, WRITING & COSTUME WORKSHOPS
ART INTERVENTION

2022

🏘️ 👀


Exhibited at Spektrum
With the support of Spektrum, Esch 2022- Capital of Culture, Diversion



WHERE DO DEAD MALLS GO?

Where Do Dead Malls Go? is a PS1-style exploration/narrative video game by Medulla Studio where you embody a newly employed custodian in the Daylight Mall. This deserted mall still have some collective stories to tell and that’s why you’re here.

︎︎︎ Medulla.games

VIDEO GAME, WORLDBUILDING, INTERACTION DESIGN
VIDEO GAME

2021 - ?

in pre-production


🛒 🐋



All4Games award

Aide à l’écriture et à la pré-production FAJV/CNC

Daniel Sabatier Award 2021



SAD DAISY

A depressive marguerite living on the walls of Lyon, Paris & Antony, where people wonders why she’s as sad as them. She also lived on objects, embroideries, graffitis. She’s a mediumless flower.

STREET ART COLLAGE, ILLUSTRATION
STREET ART

2020 - ?

🌼 😔




PING

PING is an alt-controller game using AR to capture the player's movement which then becomes the paddle of the famous PONG game. Played alone, the game is only one-sided and the fun never lasts very long.

︎︎︎ Itch.io

VIDEO GAME, AR, CONSOLATIONS SERIE
ALT CTRL GAME

2021

🕹️ 👾


Exhibited at
Gaité Lyrique
Alt Controller Game Jam, 2021





︎︎︎ SAFE DANS LE MÉTAVERS

Safe dans le Métavers is a research paper about metaverse moderation, written (in french) for Gobelins/CNAM-ENJMIN post-master degree in Interaction Design.

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RESEARCH, METAVERSE MODERATION
PROFESSIONAL THESIS

2021

📝




MOURIR DEMAIN

Mourir demain is a Doom 2 mod firstly created as a tribute to ELOI - Victoire music song, using intrinsic violence of the game to talk about cop violence & youngster angst.

︎︎︎ Youtube

︎︎︎ ccc.cookie.paris

VIDEO GAME MOD, LISTENING SESSION
MUSIC VIDEO GAME

2021

👮‍♂️🎵


Exhibited at
Machinima version is part of the CookieCollectiveCompil,2024




STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY

Bad stock photo can be harmful for an industry image and can lead to stereotypes, technical confusion & more. The project aimed to give away beautiful free stock photo of VR installation on

︎︎︎ Unsplash.com/stella_jacob

PHOTOGRAPHY, COMMUNICATION, DIGITAL INTERVENTION
PHOTO

2018-2020

📈🥽


Featured on Unsplash, Adobe XD, Hindustan Times, World Economic Forum, Le Centquatre-Paris.




TRASH COSTUMES

A photo serie made during pandemic, using costumes made of trash to represent my worst default.

︎︎︎ instagram.com/quarantaine.fun

PHOTOGRAPHY, COSTUME
PHOTO SERIE

2020

🚮 📷


Exhibited at Carbone17 as part of Quarantaine.fun exhibition





CO-LOVE

CO-LOVE is a wholesome-coop-shooting-game about LOVE. By synchronising your aim with your partner, you get to created as much rainbows in the sky than love stories on the ground.
VIDEO GAME

2020

🌈❤️




︎︎︎ KINOAUTOMAT

The first interactive movie was made in 1967, in Czech Republic by a man called by  Radúz Činčera. Its name is “Kinoautomat : Člověk a jeho dům”. Proudly presented during EXPO 67, it was censored by the Czech government in 1972.

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MASTER 1 RESEARCH THESIS, INTERACTIVE MOVIE, HISTORY OF ARTS
RESEARCH

2016

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