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Marc Lee (born March 17, 1969) is a Swiss new media artist working in the fields of interactive installation art,
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, performance art and video art.


Biography

Lee was born in 1969 in Knutwil,
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, in
Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. He studied at th
Basel University of Art and Design
installation and at the Zurich University of the Arts new media art through 2003. Lee creates network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies. His projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative issues. His artworks reflect the visions and limits of our information society in an intelligent and artistic manner. Marc Lee has exhibited in major art exhibitions including:
ZKM The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...
Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin,
Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...
Linz, Contemporary Art Biennale Sevilla, Media Art Biennale Seoul, Viper and Shift Festival Basel, Read_Me Festival Moskau, CeC Delhi, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul. Lee's work are in private and public collections including the Federal Art Collection Switzerland and the
ZKM The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...
Karlsruhe and he has won many prices and honorary mentions at international festivals, including Transmediale Berlin and Ars Electronica Linz


Art projects

* ''10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different'' explores how our planet is becoming increasingly homogeneous and how globalization creates more and more “places without a local identity” – as described in
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’s essay
Non-place Non-place or nonplace is a neologism coined by the France, French anthropologist Marc Augé to refer to anthropological spaces of transience where human beings remain anonymous, and that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places" ...
(1992). In 10.000 Moving Cities all cities have the identical buildings, but the information on the building facades are constantly different. They are searched in real time on social networks about the chosen location. This ongoing experimental research project is developed by Marc Lee in collaboration with Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratory (ISAS) at the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...
and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Four versions have been created so far:
augmented reality Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...
(AR) version, virtual reality (VR) version, mobile app version, and a "real cubes" version. These versions are technologically very different but address the identical topic. A large-scale exhibition was at the premiere exhibition Connecting_Unfolding of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul. * ''Unfiltered – TikTok and the Emerging Face of Culture'' is an immersive installation. It explores the influence of digital accessibility and questioning its impact on public consciousness, visual aesthetics and identity structures. With the increasing access to social media, digital hierarchies are being broken. Platforms like TikTok are the new city town hall, whose "influence" is no longer limited to the urban elite. * ''Echolocation – Mapping the Free Flow of Information Around the World in Realtime'' deals with cultural diversity and at the same time with the powerful homogenization. It poses questions about the meaning of our culture which is becoming increasingly similar. In Echolocation, stories posted on social networks like YouTube, Flickr and Twitter can be searched in real time about self chosen location. * ''Corona TV Bot'' is current version of Marc Lee’s TV bot, an ongoing project started in 2004, filters the latest Twitter and YouTube posts according to self-definable keywords or hashtags. In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the latest Twitter and YouTube posts about COVID-19 and Coronavirus are mediated in a wild continuous TV show feed and reflect the coronavirus pandemic 24/7 online. Since the Corona virus pandemic, 6-hour broadcasts are recorded every week. These resources can be compared in a chronological order to make cultural, economic and political factors, differences, development and change tangible. * ''360° VR Mobile Art Apps'' are research projects for interactive art installations. Visitors can interact using smartphones or tablets and become performers. The mobile display is projected on one or more walls in the exhibition space. The sonic sound experiences are specially composed for the apps and respond to movements and navigation modes. * ''Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media'' In political campaigns around the world, supporters of opposing parties have engaged in heated battles on social media. "Political Campaigns" filters the latest Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube posts, which include search terms of top candidates or parties, and weaves them into a wild TV news show (24/7). What counts today are likes and retweets, which travel across the screen fighting for victory and indicate their current online market value. A network-based TV show that confronts us with opinions that don't reflect just variants of our own. * ''Pic-Me – Fly to the Locations Where Users Send Posts'' With Pic-Me you can virtually fly to the places from where users send posts to Instagram, thus offering another view on how the media handles posts on social networks. This work makes us think what happens to the huge amounts of data generated by humans and collected by institutions worldwide? * '' Loogie.net'' generates television news programs on self-made topics at the push of a button. The first founded "interactive news television station" in 2003. This research project is a TV news channel, media satire and art installation at the same time. * ''Breaking the News – Be a News-Jockey'' Information on self-made topics are transmitted in real time from the internet and audiovisualized on four large projections. The user becomes a live performer, a news jockey. About News-Jockey: * ''Used to be my home too'' cartographs in real-time our rich biodiversity and at the same time the continuous extinction of species. This experiment shows photos of plants, fungi and animals that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. These are mapped on Google Earth at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are assigned in real time via RedList.org. * ''YANTO – yaw and not tip over'' is a speculative simulation on the future of aquafarming that questions the limitations of techno-solutionist approaches to species depletion and climate collapse, such as genetic engineering, synthetic biology and artificial intelligence. The narrative sets in a speculative environment where AI and synthetic biology work together to create an optimized environment for farmed species. A simulator powered by AI creates hybrid species to balance a delicate ecosystem. * ''Speculative Evolution'' imagines a speculative ecosystem 30 years from now, where artificial intelligence and biotechnologies work together to create and optimize species to withstand the increasingly hostile environment. From the perspective of an AI agent, the audiences are invited to create new variations of animals, fungi, plants, and robots, fly with these engineered and mutated species, and observe the changing ecosystem.


Exhibitions (selection)

* 2023 – Transmediale Festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany * 2022 – Swiss Media Art - Pax Art Awards, HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), Basel, Switzerland * 2017–2018 – Aestetic of Changes, MAK - 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria * 2013 – Connecting_Unfolding, MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea * 2004–2008 – Loogie.net Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany * 2002 – Open\\_Source\\_Art\\_Hack, New Museum, New York, USA


Publications

* 2022 - ESCH, ZKM Karlsruhe, Hacking Identity – Dancing Diversity * 2020 – post-futuristisch, KUNSTFORUM International Bd. 267, Magazine * 2019 – LUX AETERNA - ISEA 2019 Art, Catalogue * 2019 – xCoAx 2019: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X * 2019 – FILE SÃO PAULO 2019: 20 Years of FILE 20 Years of Art and Technology () * 2019 – Research TECHNOLOGY URBANITY, Schafhof - European Center for Art Upper Bavaria * 2017 – THE UNFRAMED WORLD, Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium, Sabine Himmelsbach() * 2014 – Inauguration, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea () * 2010 – Was tun. Figuren des Protests. Taktiken des Widerstands () * 2008 – Digital Playground 2008, "Hack the City!" () * 2004 – Read_me: Software Art & Cultures, Aarhus () * 2004 – MetaWorx – Young Swiss Interactive. Approaches to Interactivity () * 2004 – 56kTV - bastard channel MAGAZIN


References


External links


Official Website
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