| 1982 | Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2004 |
BA Architecture, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England |
| 2008 | AA Diploma, Architectural Association, London, England |
| 2012 |
Master of Architecture II, The Cooper Union, New York, NY |
| 2017 | PhD candidate in Machine Learning, Royal College of Art, London, England |
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Lives and works in London |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2021 |
TRI_SOLO: Tim Crowley, Nik Kosmas and Lawrence Lek, BANK/MABSOCIETY, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 |
Ghostwriter, Cursor Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Farsight Freeport, HeK House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel, Switzerland Nøtel, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Essen, Germany AIDOL, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
| 2018 |
Nøtel, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands Nøtel, Arebyte, London, England 2065, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 |
AI: More than Human, Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain (touring) |
| 2021 |
Future Proof, DDE Departmental Directorate of Equipment Building, Brittany, France Future Media Art Festival, Art Space III 1F, C-LAB Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan donaufestival, Krems, Austria Iskra Delta, 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Radical Gaming - Immersion Simulation Subversion, HeK House of Electronic Arts Basel, Basel, Switzerland Open?, Russian Pavillion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy AI: More than Human, World Museum Liverpool, Liverpool, England (touring) Extensions Vol III. Monstrous Machines, ARoS Arhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark and Radar Contemporary online Pieces of Me, Transfer online Am I a Human to You?, Art Museum KUBE, Ålesund, Norway In-Between Days: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA Summer Exhibition 2020, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England |
| 2020 |
SoundTrack_Cologne17, online The Sea is Glowing, Exportdrvo, Rijeka, Croatia Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong The Future of Silence: When Your Tongue Vanishes, Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco | de Young Legion of Honor, San Francisco CA, USA E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany 49th IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2019 |
S Gameplay. Video Games Culture, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Every Step in the Right Direction, Singapore Biennale 2019, Singapore 24/7, Somerset House, London, England TRANSFORMER: A Rebirth of Wonder, 180 The Strand, London, England Cosmologic Arrows, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Complete Technology, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea Serious Game, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China Future Cities: Technopolis and Everyday Life, CFCCA Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030-2100, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia An Opera for Animals, RAM Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Nøtel, Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Game of Drones. Of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany FTSE (Farsight Stock Exchange), Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England AI:More Than Human, The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England (touring) Free Panorama, Shenzhen New Media Art Festival, Pingshan Cultural Center Exhibition Gallery, Shenzhen, China Forging the Gods, Transfer Gallery, New York NY, USA The New Human Agenda, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong Artificial Landscape, in collaboration with Videotage, SOGO Causeway Bay, Hong Kong |
| 2018 |
artapes. Low Form, MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy ARTBOTS, Patchlab Digital Art Festival, Krakow, Poland Offline Browser, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2018, Taipei, Taiwan Open Codes. The World as a Field of Data, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Fetch and Deliver (Holen und Bringen), Werkleitz Festival 2018: Holen und Bringen, Halle (Saale), Germany Rivers of Emotion, Bodies of Ore, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway Ecology, Bold Tendencies, Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London, England Quest-For-Meaning Bureau The Culture of a Good Life, KUNSTSÆLE Berlin, Berlin, Germany Head Heap Heat, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore Rendered Cities, apexart, New York, NY Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future, CTM 2018: Turmoil, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 |
A Better Version of You, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea Play Station, Art Night London, with Whitechapel Gallery, London, England 3Drifts, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan HyperPavilion, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy Geomancer, Neither One Thing Or Another, Jerwood/FVU Awards, Jerwood Space, London, England The New Normal, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Hybrid Layers, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany Offshore: Artists explore the sea, Maritime Museum, Hull, England All Channels Open, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Hua Wei (with Kode9 / Hyperdub), Ø, Corsica Studios, London, England |
| 2016 |
Glasgow International, Director's Programme, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland SeMA Mediacity Seoul Biennial, SeMA Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Missed Connections, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany Vordemburge-Gildewart Award, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England Maybe your Lens is Scratched?, Slate Projects, London, England Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition), OPEN SOURCE Festival, London, England Overseas (360 Video), This is Public Space, UP Projects, London, England New Realities, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Peru Game Video / Art, Triennale di Milano, XXI Century. IULM, Milan, Italy Secret Surface, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
Software, Hard Problem, Cubitt Gallery, London, England The Uncanny Valley, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England The Labour of Sound in a World of Debt, Vierte Welt, Berlin, Germany Faith Dollars, Taxfree Imagination & Uptown Bliss, Assembly Point, London, England Equalizer.Space, The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art (with Channel Normal) Dalston, Mon Amour, Open Source Festival, London, England H0ST, Galleri Monitor, Göthenburg, Sweden Dazed Emerging Artist Award, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Black Box Formula, Curating Contemporary Art Exhibition, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 |
Sky Line, Digital Commission, supported by Outset England, Art Licks Weekend, London England Tomb, Shrine, Survey-Maker, Spare Part..., Enclave, London, England I/P 1, Project/Number, London, England Tabularium, Slopes, Melbourne, Australia BitRates, Shiraz Artist House, Shiraz, Iran Re:presence, Sto Werkstatt, London, England SEIZE International, KÉK The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest, Hungary RIaytracer, The White Building, London, England Delirious New Wick, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Snow Falling in a Temple, Twice, POST2, La Scatola, online Residency Continental Drift OST, Channel Normal, online Residency Prosthetic Aesthetics, Werkraum Bregenzerwald, Andelsbuch, Switzerland |
| 2013 |
Penthouse 4C, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London, England Night Loops, Legion TV, London, England Bonus Levels: A Collective Tower, Art Licks Weekend, The White Building, London, England The Wrong, Biennial for Online Art, São Paulo, Brazil ERROR 415: ArtSlant, San Francisco, CA Pyramid Schemes, The White Building, London, England Glass Idols, V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Bring Your Own Beamer, SPACE, London, England Exophonic 1, Watermans – West London’s Arts Centre, London, England Designers in Residence 2012, Design Museum, London, England Art and Social Activism, ChaShaMa Foundation, New York, NY Assembly, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts, London, England Illuminations, Coldharbour Gallery, London, England |
Screenings
| 2021 |
AIDOL at donaufestival, Krems, Austria, 01 – 10 October AIDOL at Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Blackbox Theatre, Oslo AIDOL in State of Motion 2021: [Alternate/Opt] Realities, Asia Film Archive, Singapore, 30 January – 06 February |
| 2020 |
AIDOL at Hainan Island International Film Festival, Hainan, 05 – 12 December AIDOL The AI Party Pep Rally, Bombina Bombast, Hypnos Theatre, Malmö, 02 December AIDOL at SoundTrack_Cologne17, SoundTrack_Cologne, Cologne, Germany, 14 – 17 October 2065 at Videotage Media Art Collection: Paranormal, HKCEC Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, 20 March Time Machine at DJ Spooky, with Ronald Guttman, Tony Torn, and Julie Atlas Muz: Performances Inspired by Alfred Jarry, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York NY, USA, 28 February AIDOL and Geomancer at E2E (End to End), transmediale 2020, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 28 January – 01 February AIDOL at 49th IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 22 January – 02 February |
| 2019 |
Geomancer at To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism, AI Artist Bots and New Silk Roads, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany, 30 November Geomancer at MUTEK Montréal, Monteral, Canada, 18 – 25 August AIDOL at MIEFF Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 10 July Geomancer at Present Futures Glasgow, CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland, 08 – 09 June Geomancer at Stanley, Meet Alexa: AI and Filmmaking in the Flesh, BFI, London, 27 April Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD) at Norient Musikfilm Festival, Bern / Lausanne / St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| 2018 |
2065; Bonus Levels - Chapter 2: Delirious New Wick – Walkthrough at Clockenflap Hong Kong's Music & Arts Festival, Hong Kong Geomancer at ArtReview Bar, London, England Geomancer atKolkata Shorts International Film Festival, Hotel Monotel, Kolkata, India Pyramid Schemes; Play Station (Farsight Corporate Trailer); Geomancer in Artists Film Club, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Geomancer in Dreaming Androids, IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Geomancer; Sinofuturism at FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England IAM Internet Age Media, Barcelona, Spain Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD) at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| 2017 |
Geomancer at Jerwood/FVU, London, England (touring to: CCA Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; HOME, Manchester, England; Phoenix, Leicester, England; Phoenix, Exeter, England; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England) Viewfinder: ON AIR, with videoclub UK & British Council, West Bund Art Fair, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Welcome to Play Station; Farsight Corporate Promo in Both Sides Now 4, with videoclub UK & Videotage Hong Kong, HOME, Manchester, England Geomancer in SummerLab, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain Sky Line in Unsettle, in collaboration with LUX Moving Image and Daata Editions, StudioRCA, London, England CitizensFive, programmed by Alexander Burenkov, Art Athina, Athens, Greece Postcapitalist Desire, programmed by roaming projects, Platform, London, England Dark Water, programmed by Tai Shani & A – Z, CGP Dilston Grove, London, England GEGENkino Film Festival, Leipzig, Germany Nocturnal City, programmed by Estela Oliva, Somerset House, London, England |
| 2016 |
Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) in Projections, New York Film Festival 2016, New York, NY Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, Kassel, Germany Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, Switzerland Long Progress Bar, Lighthouse, Brighton, England ICA Artist Film Biennial, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, England; Spike Island, Bristol, England; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland Tableaux, Assembly Point, London, England Speeding & Braking: Navigating Acceleration, Goldsmiths College, London, England Heterotopia of Rules, LEAP Magazine, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, China Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, London, England Public Art Screens, Stavanger, Norway |
| 2015 | Tenderflix Artist Video Award, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
Performances
| 2019 |
Image Behaviour: Keiken / Lawrence Lek + Clifford Sage, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, England, 15 November |
| 2017 |
Live & Ambient, with Clifford Sage, Lost Senses, Guest Projects, London, England Heliotones, with Oliver Coates, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway |
| 2016 |
Nøtel, with Kode9, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Sonar, Barcelona, Spain; Moogfest, Durham, NC; Unsound Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Sunrise/Sunset, KW Institute, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
Unreal Estate, with Oliver Coates, 3hd Festival, HAU2, Berlin, Germany; Kammer Klang, Cafe Oto, London, England Uncanny Halloween, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Performance as Process, Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 |
Syndrome, FACT Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, England Bodyscape, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England |
Talks
| 2021 |
What are we Building?, MIT Wasserman Forum online, 06 April – 10 April |
| 2019 |
To Other Shores: On Techno-Sinofuturism, AI Artist Bots and New Silk Roads, ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, Germany, 30 November Worldbuilding for Non-Humans. Artist talk by Lawrence Lek, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 14 July Technology and its Intersections: Viewing Scenarios and other Platforms, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 2017 |
Posthuman Worlds, Artist Talk, CAC x On-AIR Programme. Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China Geomancer: Screening, & Talk with Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, ALL, Shanghai, China The Only Path to Tomorrow. Symposium as part of Zach Blas’ exhibition Contra-Internet, Gasworks, London, England Art Night 2017: Building Futures: Collecting New Media, with Fatos Ustek, Bishopsgate Institute, London, England Creative AI: Film in the Age of Non-Human Authors, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England The New Normal: In conversation with Jacob Dreyer, UCCA, Beijing, China Sinofuturism: A Conspiracy Theory? With Anna Greenspan & Steve Goodman, New York, NY University Shanghai, Shanghai, China Sonic Fictions: With Alvin Li & Steve Goodman, UCCA, Beijing, China The Museum as Battlefield, Contemporary Art Society Annual Talk, British Museum, London, England In conversation with Steve Goodman for Jerwood/FVU Awards, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Resonate Festival, Kinoteka, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 2016 |
Missed Connections (talk with Devin Kenny, Lawrence Lek, Hito Steyerl, Jennifer Chan, moderated by Melissa Gronlund, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany In conversation with Stephanie Bailey & Sophia Al-Maria, Frieze Art Fair, London, England Sinofuturism (1839 – 2046 AD), Resonance FM / Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England Digital Narratives (with Karen Di Franco & Morgan Quaintance), Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Behind the Show: The Notel, Sonar by Day, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2015 |
D&AD Talks, Awakening Tech, Institute of Education, London, England OneDotZero dotdotdot Talk Series, Protein Studios, London, England Studio Visit (with Morgan Quaintance & Cecile B. Evans), Resonance FM, UK Bonus Levels, RCA Fine Art Lecture Series, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Design Interactions - Study Day, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Object as Measure, Artist Talk, Chelsea College of Art, London, England |
| 2014 | Speculative Sculpture, Artist Talk, Trinity College, Cambridge, England |
Awards & Residencies
| 2021 |
LACMA 2021 Art + Technology Lab, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles LA, USA |
| 2017 |
Jerwood / Film & Video Umbrella Award for Video Artists, London, England Stavros Niarchos Foundation Machine Learning PhD Scholarship, RCA Royal College of Art, London, England Outset Young Production Fund for Art Night, London, England China Connections Through Culture Grant, British Council, England Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts for Virtual Reality Development, England |
| 2016 |
Vordemburge-Gildewart Foundation Award, Annely Juda Fine Art, Switzerland Artist-in-Residence, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, England MVWorks Artist Incubator Grant, Makerversity, Somerset House, London, England Dazed Emerging Artist Award, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Artist-in-Residence, Performance as Process, Delfina Foundation, London, England Tenderflix Artist Video Award, Tenderpixel, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 2014 |
Artist International Development Fund, Arts Council England, England Outset England Artist Project Fund for Art Licks Weekend Digital Commission, England |
| 2013 |
Artist-in-Residence, Hack the Barbican, Barbican Centre, London, England |
| 2012 |
Designer-in-Residence, Design Museum, London, England |
Public Collections
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British Council, London, England Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA / Venice, Italy / Bilbao, Spain / Abu Dhabi, UAE MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, Korea Museum of London, London, England Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ, USA Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA |