Biography

Marc Lee is a Swiss artist. He uses contemporary art as a vehicle to continuously redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies and within his contemporary art practice, he reflects critically creative, cultural, social, ecological and political aspects. In this context he is creating network-oriented interactive art projects: interactive installations, media art, internet art, performance art, video art, augmented reality (AR) art, virtual reality (VR) art and mobile art apps.

His works are exhibited in major Museums and new media art exhibitions including: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, HMKV Dortmund, HEK Basel, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Read_Me Festival Moscow, CeC Dehli, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo, Nam June Paik Art Center, Media Art Biennale and MMCA Seoul.

He is lecturing, teaching and holding workshops about art and software art in many schools including the China Academy of Art (CAA) Hangzhou, Strelka Moscow, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Seoul and ZHdK Zurich.

Marc Lee he has won many prizes and honorary mentions at international festivals, including “Interaction” and “Software” Awards at Transmediale Berlin and the Social-Media-Art-Award at Phaenomenale Wolfsburg. His art projects are in private and public collections like the Swiss Confederation Federal Art Collection Bern, HEK Basel, Fotomuseum Winthertur and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Education (Selection)

2000-2003, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland, “New Media” Department
1995-1999, Basel University of Art and Design (FHNW), Switzerland, “Installation” Department

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Year Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
Virtual worlds. From cycloramas to Metaverse, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
23.11.2023 - 05.05.2024
A Show of Affection - Collection Constellation 1, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
10.02.2024 - 20.05.2024
Busan MoCA Collection Marc Lee-STUDIO 1750, MoCA, Busan, South Korea
16.03.2024 - 07.07.2024

Previous Exhibitions (Selection)

Year Previous Exhibitions (Selection)
2024
2024Festival for expanded media 37. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Kunstbezirk Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2023
2023Grosse Regionale 2023, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland
2023Démodé - STIFF 2023, Galerija SKC, Rijeka, Croatia
2023Expanded-Cinema Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, oxyd, Winterthur, Switzerland
2023CYFEST-15 International Media Art Festival, Institute for Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2023Gyumri International Art Week Festival, Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia
2023Time Gravity - 2023 Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Tianfu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2023xCoAx 2023, Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany
2023International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) juried exhibition, Le Tetris, Le Havre, France
2023Raiden INS, Beijing Contemporary Art Expo, Beijing, China
2023Topologies of the Real - Techne Shenzhen 2023, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen, China
2023Runaway Paradise: Lets Entertain, Times Art Museum, Chongqing, China
2023FutureFantastic Festival, Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore, India
2023FutureFantastic Festival, Ranga Shankara, Bangalore, India
2023A City Beyond, WE ARE AIA - Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2023Bits n Bolts, Zentralwäscherei, Zurich, Switzerland
2023Ecological Integration, Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB) at CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2023Transmediale Festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2022
2022Wuhan Biennale 2022 - Art as a Thoroughfare, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2022Unfold X - Shaping the Future, S-Factory Seongsu, Seoul, South Korea
2022Karachi Biennale 2022, Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi, Pakistan
2022ERNTE 22, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
202221. Augsburger Kunstlabor - LAb30, Kulturamt der Stadt Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
2022Swissnex San Francisco, Swiss Consulate at Pier 17, San Francisco, USA
2022Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2022, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, South Korea
2022Werkschau 2022, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2022Everything Will Be Fine, forecourt of the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany
2022Still Here, Staromestská Galéria Zichy, Bratislava, Slovakia
20221.5° CELSIUS, MSU Science Gallery, Michigan, USA
2022Marrakesh Unfiltered, Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh, Morocco, (solo)
2022Earthbound - In Dialogue with Nature, European Capitals of Culture, Möllerei Esch-Belval, Luxembourg
2022Tate AI, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022Electron Festival 2022, Le Commun, Geneva, Switzerland
2022Switzerland Used to Be My Home Too, ToBE Art Gallery, Bern, Switzerland, (solo)
2022Digital Resonance, Inaugural Exhibition of the Gwangju Media Art Platform G.MAP, Gwangju, Korea
2022Can Tech Save the World and Art Heal It, Sustainable Singapore Gallery, Marina Barrage, Singapore
2022Saigon Urban Arts Festival, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2022IN-SONORA 12, International Sound and Interactive Art Festival, Madrid, Spain
2022Hacking Identity - Dancing Diversity, European Capitals of Culture, Möllerei Esch, Luxembourg
2022Swiss Media Art - Pax Art Awards, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland, (solo)
2022Infrastrukturen, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst E-Werk, Freiburg, Germany, (solo)
2022Festival for expanded media, 35. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2022Celebrate Life, ARTour, Basel, Switzerland
2021
2021Super Fusion Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art and Tianfu Gallery, Chengdu, China
2021Are we all here? Exploring Embodied Virtuality Today, ONCURATING Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2021PIKSEL Festival 2021, BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, Bergen, Norway
2021West Bund Art & Design Fair with Raiden INST, Art West Bund Center, Shanghai, China
202125th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021Digital Art Collection, Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst mit neuen Medien, EIGENHEIM Weimar Berlin, Germany
202117th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), Athens Greece, online.adaf.gr, online
2021Pax Art Awards 2021, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
2021my home is my castle, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau, Switzerland
202124th Dresden International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2021Advance and retreat of globalization, Macao International Art Biennale, Art Macao Main Exhibition, Macao
2021SEND ME AN IMAGE, CO Berlin Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2021Update and NTAA: Selected works, TICK TACK, Antwerp, Netherlands
2021Stormy Weather, Centre culturel suisse, Paris, France
2021HEK Net Works - Marc Lee: Bobi Wine vs Museveni, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), hek.ch, online
2021HMKV Video of the Month - Marc Lee: Corona TV Bot, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany
2020
2020Black Swan: Unpredictable Future, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, South Korea
2020Da Z Digital Culture Festival, Kunstraum Walcheturm and Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland
2020MORE AND LESS - Zurich liest, Karl der Grosse, Zurich, Switzerland
2020Stormy Weather, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria
2020Unter Beobachtung - Kunst des Rückzugs, Kunsthalle Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
2020Captured in-between Dys-Utopia, Kunstverein, Friedrichshafen, Germany
2020MORE AND LESS, Stadtmuseum, Aarau, Switzerland
2020Netz Werke, re:publica Campus Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
2020Media Anatomy, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2020Window of the World, Reithalle, St. Moritz, Switzerland
20203x3: Looking Back Stepping Forward, Qinhuai Yi Art Space, Nanjing University of the Arts, China
2020Stay at Home - Marc Lee, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2020A Ripple in the Data Flow, Virtual Exhibition, Brooklyn New York, USA
2020Games.Fights.Encounters, ONCURATING Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2020Pixels Fest Digital Utopia, Yeltsin Center Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020India Unfiltered, Palladium, Chennai, India
2020India Unfiltered, SPACE10, New Delhi, India, (solo)
2020Kolkata Literary Festival, ParkStreet, Kolkata, India
2020MORE AND LESS ,Spheres, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2020Art collection in the sculpture garden, Schafhof - European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany
2019
2019NEWSBODY - BONE Performance Art Festival, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
2019Arbeitswelt Ausstellung, DASA, Dortmund, Germany
2019Piksel19 Festival, BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, Bergen, Norway
2019CYFEST-12: ID, The International Media Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
201910.000 Moving Cities, COMO Screen SKT Tower 65 Eulji-ro Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, (solo)
2019Me Myself & I, Happy Screen Art Center Nabi SK building, Seoul, South Korea, (solo)
2019The Short Film Festival of Switzerland, Theater, Winterthur, Switzerland
2019Friends - AI & User-Generated content, PRE liverpool - Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China, (solo)
201923rd International Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2019Ars Electronica Animation Festival, POSTCITY Art Thinking House, Linz, Austria
2019The Kind Stranger, Premiere exhibition of the new UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
2019Toronto New Wave festival (TNW), Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, Canada
2019Research Technology Urbanity, Schafhof - European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany
2019xCoAx 2019, 7th International Conference on Computation - Communication - Aesthetics and X, Milan, Italy
2019FILE SAO PAULO 2019, Electronic Language international Festival SESI Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2019International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) juried exhibition, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea
2019Moving Cities, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2019Belfast Photo Festival, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019Why Electing, Polit-Forum, Bern, Switzerland
2019Non-Places, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom, (solo)
2019WSIS Forum 2019, ITU Hauptsitz, Geneva, Switzerland
2019Art Souterrain - Contemporary Art Festival, World Trade Centre, Montreal, Canada
2019F(r)iction, Kona Gallery, New Delhi, India
2019Lodhi Art Festival, Lodhi Art District, New Delhi, India
2019datatrap, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
2019Festival for expanded media, 32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2018
2018GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Centre, Debrecen, Hungary
2018Buzzocrazy! PIKSEL18, SKUR14, Bergen, Norway
2018Annual exhibition Zentralschweizer Kunstschaffen XL, Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
20188th TADAEX | Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018wildwuchs in shelter, Turbine, Giswil, Switzerland
201810.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different - AR, Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart, Germany, (solo)
2018Artificial Paradise? Immersion in Space and Time, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
2018Punkt & Halbi, Schlössli Wohlen, Wohlen, Switzerland
2018GLOBAL CONTROL, Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
2018Echolocation, Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Festival Tshimologong Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, (solo)
2018A Whale That Grew up in a Bathtub, Sechseinhalb, Zurich, Switzerland
2018Algorithmic Lifestyle, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2018GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, Czech National Library of Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
2018GROSS - Airport Lounge, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
2018Cairotronica 18, Palace Of Arts - Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt
2018Designing Knowledge, ACM SIGGRAPH, Art Show Archives, DAC Online Exhibition
2018Re/public - public spaces in the digital age, Polit-Forum, Bern, Switzerland
2018FACELESS, Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin, Germany
2018Die politische Dimension der Kunst, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
2018GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, Energy Museum, Vilnius, Latvia
2018Same but Different, Synthesis Gallery, Berlin, Germany, (solo)
2018GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Poland
2018The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center, Santa Cruz CA, USA
2017
2017Aestetic of Changes, MAK - 150 Years of the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2017Plums Festival - audiovisual experiments festival, Digital Entrepreneur Space, Moscow, Russia
2017Doomsday - End Without End, Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland
2017Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017RIXC Art Science Festival, Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
2017GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, Nová Synagóga / Kunsthalle, Zilina, Slovakia
2017DEMO DAY, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn New York, USA
201721th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia
2017Farewell Photography - No Image Is an Island, Port25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst Mannheim and Bookstore Thalia at Paradeplatz, City Centre Mannheim, Germany
2017TOPOPHILIA, Farmhouse Nørager, Nees, Denmark
2017FILE SAO PAULO 2017, Electronic Language international Festival SESI Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2017Non-Places, Galerie b, Stuttgart, Germany, (solo)
2017Kinemathek, dokKa - dokumentarfestival, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2017BBK - Kunst Quartier, Push | 30. European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2017Extraordinary Travel, Festival ZERO1, La Rochelle, France
2017Papierkörbin, Sechseinhalb, Zurich, Switzerland
2017The Unframed World, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
2017Festival for expanded media, 300. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2016
2016The Show Must Go On, Situations, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, (solo)
2016New GamePlay, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2016Biennial Update_6/ NTAA, Zebrastraat, Ghent, Belgium
2016PHOTOFAIRS, Shanghai, International Art Fairs, Shanghai, China, (solo)
2016Cinnamon Colomboscope, Former General Post Office, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016Salle del Castillo, Festival IMAGES, Vevey, Switzerland
2016GROSS, Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
2016Echtzeit-Vermessung, Noseland, Zofingen, Switzerland, (solo)
2016TV Bot 3.0, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2016Fluss der Bilder - Bilderfluss, Federal Media Centre, Berne, Switzerland
2016Nguni Arts and Craft Center, Masiphumelele, Sun Valley, Cape Town, South Africa
2016Video-Tour, ZHAW University Library, Winterthur, Switzerland, (solo)
2016GLOBALE: GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015
201518th Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015Festival for expanded media, 28. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2015Realtime stories, Aktionshalle, roten Fabrik Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2015Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), 3rd Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2015Digital | Analog: Indifferenz, Riesa Efau Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany
2015Public Space_s, 11th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece
2015dokKa Festival Karlsruhe, Kinemathek, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015Poetics and Politics of Data, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
2015GLOBALE: Infosphäre, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015Phaenomenale 2015, Science Center phaeno, Wolfsburg, Germany
2015Tan Kan Kee Art Center, Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2014
2014Get It Louder, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, China
2014C(h)roma Show, gallery SKE, Bangalore, India
2014Pic-me, Link Point, Brescia, Italy, (solo)
2014Federal Office for culture of Switzerland, Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, Switzerland
2014The value of the present moment, Rhine river, Eglisau, Switzerland, (solo)
2014Moving uyuni, salar de Uyuni, Central Altiplano, Bolivia
2014Festival for expanded media, 27. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2014Robot night, Clubraum, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
2013Connecting_Unfolding, premiere exhibition of the MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, (solo)
2013Generation i.2, Edith Ruß House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2013FLASHBACKS, Stadtgalerie, Berne, Switzerland
2013From Chongqing to 重庆, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China, (solo)
2013Public Domain Show, Aarau, Berne, Geneve and Zurich, Switzerland
2013Inter[in]venção / Inter[in]vention, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
2013Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, Switzerland
2013Inter[in]vention, Sammlung ZKM, Évora, Spain
2012
20123 Arbeiten: Anflug - Schlagzeilen - Orte, Galerie b, Stuttgart, Germany, (solo)
2012Le CArTe pour Center dˈArts et de Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland
2012Ocean Waves - South Pole - Birdˈs Nest - GPS Image walk, POT, Kassel, Germany, (solo)
2012Cod.Act, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France
2012Digital Art Works, The Challenges of Conservation, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
2012Digital Art Works, The Challenges of Conservation, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2011
2011Together in Electric Dreams, HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
2011Poolloop ˈ11, Kunstraum Starkart, Zurich, Switzerland
2011Gateways. Art and Networked Culture, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2011media donkeys, mobile formate, Martuel, Switzerland
2011ULTRA SOZIAL, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland
2011Festival for expanded media, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2011Reflective Interventions 2011, Gallery Art Claims Impulse, Berlin, Germany
2011Public Domain Jam, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
2010GLOBALNE OCIEPLENIE / THE MEDIAGATE, Gallery NT, Lodz, Poland
2010Fine Art Auction, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland
2010tweakfest 10 - TRADE, Old Stock Exchange, Zurich, Switzerland
2010IMAGINING MEDIA, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2010Beam me up, [plug_in], Basel, Switzerland
2010Test_Lab - Tools for Propaganda, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009
2009YOU_ser 2.0, Celebration of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
20094 Question & Pairs, Ada Ranga Mandira, Bengaluru, India, (solo)
2009Uncharted, Santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
2009Dinner Show, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2009FINDET NICHT STATT, Rote Fabrik, Zurich, Switzerland
2009Pyramid, public space beside Banaswadi Railway Station, Bengaluru, India, (solo)
2008
2008Youniverse, III International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
20085th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008Intrude; Art & Life 366, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Shanghai, China, (solo)
200812th International Video Festival Videomedeja, Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2008Data meanings, Rencontres Internationales, Paris-Villette, Paris, France
2008Newsroom - Newsbots, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2008Federal Office for culture of Switzerland, Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, Switzerland
2008Expo Transmedios, Tijuana, Mexico
2008Broadcast Yourself, with 56k-bastard.tv, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2008MAPPING 08ˈ Festival, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2008Digital Playground - Hack the City!, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2007
2007YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007Sie nennen es Realität, HMKV Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany
2007Shift Electronic Arts Festival, Shift, Basel, Switzerland
2007Im Westen nur Neues, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland
2007Radio-Bot News, Live on Radio LoRa 97.5 MHz for 10 days daily at 12am and 11pm, onair, Switzerland
2007Tweakfest, Zurich, Switzerland
2007Breaking The News, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2006
2006404 Objects Not Found, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2006Sofatrips, Dock18 Room for New Media Cultures, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2006Sichtbarkeiten, Edith Ruß House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2006CaC & CeC, Carnival of e-Creativity, India International Center, Delhi, India
2006Viper 06 Art Festival, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
2006Enseigner/Produire, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005
2005Radio-Bot News, Live on Radio LoRa 97.5 MHz for 14 days daily at 12am, onair, Switzerland
2005Mapping new Territories, with 56k-bastard.tv, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005ImageForum, with 56k-bastard.tv, Tokyo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, Japan
2004
2004Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004Tainment, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
2004Switch Award 2004, Museum for Communication, Bern, Switzerland
2004News iˈm Lovin it, Foyer of the Swiss TV (SRF), Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
2004Garage 2004 Festival, Stralsund, Germany
2004Viper 04 Art Festival, Theater, Basel, Switzerland
2004Wozownia Art Gallery, Presented from the Transmediale Festival, Torun, Poland
2004Virtually Swiss, Presented from [plug_in] for Jiff Mind, Jeonju, Korea
2004Fly Utopia!, Transmediale.04 Festival, Berlin, Germany
2004Loogie.net TV, OKB TV Chanel Berlin broadcast 6 days and each day 2 hours Live, onair, Germany
2003
2003Art Bit Collection, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
2003Loogie.net, [plug_in] Forum for new Media, Basel, Switzerland, (solo)
2003Ars Electronica, CODE Campus, Linz, Austria
2003Young Swiss Interactive, Metaworx, Basel and Geneva and Zurich, Switzerland
2003Viper 03 Art Festival, Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2003Dialog Festival 03, Alte Kaserne, Winterthur, Switzerland
2003Thinkquest, Migros, Zurich, Switzerland
2003Galerie Binz 39, Diploma Exhibition ZHdK ˈHeimapparatˈ, Zurich, Switzerland
2003Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2002
2002Open_Source_Art_Hack, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum, New York, USA
2002digital-is-not-analog 2002, San Bartolomeoˈs Church, Campobasso, Italy
2002Transmediale.02 Festival ˈGo Public!ˈ, Berlin, Germany
2002Read_Me Festival 1.2, Macros-Center, Moscow, Russia
2002Kontrollfelder, Hartware Medienkunstverein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany
2002Flag Art Festival, World Cup Stadium, Seoul, Korea
2002Art Bit Collection, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
2001
2001Viper 01 Art Festival, Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2001Kulturwochen Sursee 01, Stadtcafe, Sursee, Switzerland, (solo)
2001Clone-it, [plug_in] Forum for new Media, Basel, Switzerland
2001Made in Korea, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
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Academic activities and Artist talks (Selection)

Year Academic activities and Artist talks (Selection)
2024
2024Interview with Marc Lee from Malena Souto Arena, Artlab Academy x FUTURX, Intersecciones del futuro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024Marc Lee in conversation with Prof. Beat Christen (Director of the Institute of Microbiology, University of Stuttgart) moderated by Esther Fehn, Kunstbezirk Stuttgart, Germany
2023
2023Workshop: Imagining a Future where AI Controls our Ecosystem, Institute for Contemporary Art (I.C.A. Yerevan), Armenia
2023Lecture: Used to Be My Home Too, Gyumri Art Week, Stepanavan Cultural and Entertainment Center, Armenia
2023Workshop: Imagining a Future Where AI Controls our Ecosystem by Dev Aggarwal and Marc Lee, Bangalore International Centre, India
2022
2022Workshop and Artist Talk Art, transmediale residency open studio day, silent green Sommerfest, Berlin, Germany
2022Two-day workshop, Art With User-Generated Content, Arab Media Lab, Marrakesh, Morocco
2022Two-day mentoring, Driving the Human: 7 Approaches to Eco-social Renewal, hosted by acatech, Munich, Germany
2021
2021Two-day workshop, Hybrid Exhibition Strategies of Work-In-Progress Works, VFG Pool, Bern, Switzerland
2021Ten-day video workshop, 24th Dresden International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany
2021Two-day workshop, public space as an artistic environment using AR, social media and streaming technologies, Master students in Performing Public Space, Fontys in Tilburg, Netherlands
2021Lecture: Art from User-Generated Content: A Creative Method, M.N. Sharma Architectural Society Chandigarh, Zoom (online)
2020
2020Performance and Reading «MORE AND LESS» with Markus Kirchhofer, Stadtmuseum, Aarau, Switzerland
2020Discussion: on artistic practices, Games.Fights.Encounters, OnCurating Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2020Lecture: Art from user-generated content. Social networks as a creative method, Pixels Fest, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020Workshop: How to create installations using user generated content, Pixels Fest, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020Lecture: India Unfiltered, SPACE10, New Delhi, India
2019
2019Jury Member: International Immersive Works Competition, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Geneva, Switzerland
2019Performance: Me Myself & I, UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
2019Performance: Friends - AI & User-Generated content, PRE livepool - Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China
2019Performance: Marc Lee (A/V Live), OIL Club, Shenzhen, China
2019Artist talk: Art from User-Generated Content, NEEDS Lab, Shenzhen, China
2019Straight-line hiking performance, Vogelklang Soundcamp #2, Fuchsfalle Black Forest, Germany
2019Harnessing VR/AR’s Potential for Sustainable Spaces, WSIS Forum 2019, Geneva, Switzerland
2019Jury Member: Award Media in Space and Network Culture, Festival for expanded media, 32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2019Five-day workshop, Nalanda Labs, Wardha, India
2018
2018Two-day workshop and artist talk, Social Media Art, ZHdK Toni Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
2018Reading with Markus Kirchhofer, aushub, Literaturhaus Lenzburg and Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland
2018Lecture, Art with emerging technologies – a critical examination, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018Artist talk, Master Class, Tshimologong Precinct, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018Lecture, Art & Technology - social networks; interactivity and virtualized spaces, 16Neto, Maputo, Mozambique
2018Artist talk, Cairotronica 18, Palace Of Arts - Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt
2018Lecture: Smart Politics or the digital market place for political disputation, The political dimension of art, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
2018Lecture, DIGITALE WELT - Analoge Erfahrung, Kompatibilitätsprüfung Digitale Medien und die Kunst, Universität Bern, Switzerland
2018Lecture, Marc Lee - Social media and design in virtual spaces, SWB-Ortsgruppe Aargau, Kino Odeon, Brugg, Switzerland
2017
2017Artist talk, Virtual Reality as artistic medium, Plumsfest, Digital Entrepreneur Space, Moscow, Russia
2017Meet the Artist – Social Media Art, Virtual trip through social networks, Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland
2017Workshop, Game Design, ZHdK Zurich, Switzerland
2016
2016ART TALKS, Social Media Art, Art Department, FHNW Basel, Switzerland
2016Workshop 'Making Your Own Net Art', Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016Public Conversation with Sebastian Schmieg, Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016Workshop Artistic practices and social media, Desmond Tutu Center, Cape Town, South Africa
2015
2015Lecture, Virtual trip through social networks, Strelka, Moscow, Russia
2015Kybernetik Seminar, Department of Art & Media, ZHdK Zurich, Switzerland
2014
2014Symposium 'Farewell New media Art', China Academy of Art (CAA), Hangzhou, China
2014Workshop 'Art and social media', Galerie b, Stuttgart, Germany
2013
2013Workshop and Curator/Artist talk, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2013Workshop and Presentation, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2012
2012Four site-specific works, POT, top e.V, Kassel, Germany
2012Abfall + Kunst, Department of Cultural Analysis, ZHdK Zurich, Switzerland
2011
2011Media Hacking, Workshop for Students, SIVA Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China
2011Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China
2011Collecting: Discussion of collecting and preserving digital art, Haus EK, Basel, Switzerland
201124. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - festival for expanded media, Stuttgart, Germany
2010
2010Media Hacking, Workshop for Artists, Cultural Center, Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo
2010Teaching net art and hacking for 6 months at the Department Media Arte, ZHdK Zurich
2010Test_Lab - Tools for Propaganda, V2_, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009
2009The Freedom of Art in the Digital Era, ZKM Lecture Hall, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009Srishti School of Art, Bangalore, India
2009Carnival of e-Creativity, Sat Tal, Uttarakhand, India
2008
2008Pacte Multimédia, Geneva, Switzerland
2008Querblicke, N|W FH, Department Media Art, Aarau, Switzerland
2008Basics Festival, FH Salzburg, Department MultiMediaArt, Salzburg, Austria
2007
2007Tweakfest, Zurich, Schweiz
2007Tag der offenen Tür, University of Art Zurich, Department Media Art, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
2006Art Center Nabi and in the Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2006Last Late Multi Media Show, Dock18, Zurich, Switzerland
2006Multimedia camp (MMK), Labin, Croatia
2006go west - Festival of Fine Arts, Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
2006CaC & CeC, Carnival of e-Creativity, India International Center, Delhi, India
2006Edith Ruß House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2006Viper 06 Art Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2005
2005Kunstraum Walchenturm, Zurich, Switzerland
2005pitzquit, HGK Zürich, Switzerland
2005[plug_in] Forum for new Media, Basel, Switzerland
2004
2004Viper 04 Art Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2003
2003Loogie.net, [plug_in] Forum for new Media, Basel, Switzerland
2003Viper 03 Art Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2002
2002Transmediale.02 Festival 'Go Public!', Award Presentations, Berlin, Germany

Awards and Honorary Mentions (Selection)

  • Expanded Media Award for Network Culture, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany (2024)
  • Werkbeitrag Kanton Zurich, Switzerland (2022)
  • Pro Helvetia Research Residency, Karachi and Lahore, Pakistan (2022)
  • Transmediale Residency, Berlin, Germany (2022)
  • Pax Art Award 2021 - HEK (House of Electronic Arts) (2021)
  • Pro Helvetia Research Residency, New Delhi and Kolkata, India (2020)
  • Shortlist of the Net-Based Art Award, Magazine Kunstbulletin and HeK, Switzerland (2018)
  • Bogdanka Poznanovic Award for the best video installation, live piece, software, on 21st Videomedeja (2017)
  • Shortlist of the Net-Based Art Award, Magazine Kunstbulletin and HeK, Switzerland (2017)
  • Social Media Art Award, Phaenomenale, Wolfsburg, Germany (2015)
  • Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division, Jury Selection, Tokyo, Japan (2014)
  • ZKM Stipend, Karlsruhe (2010)
  • Pro Helvetia Residency in Bangalore, 6 month (2009)
  • SuMa Award, Berlin, Germany (2008)
  • Netart Award, Hamburg, Germany (2008)
  • Japan Media Arts Festival, Recommendation by the Jury Review Committee (2008)
  • Pacte Multimédia, Geneva, Switzerland, Recommendation by the Jury (2008)
  • Viper International Award, Category 'Transposition', Basel, Switzerland (2006)
  • Switch Award 2004, Nomination, Bern, Switzerland (2004)
  • tpc CreaTVty award of new media, TPC Zurich, Switzerland (2003)
  • Förderpreis, Award of University of Art and Design, HGK Zurich, Switzerland (2003)
  • Honorary Mentions, media art festival Ars Electronica Prices, Linz, Austria (2003)
  • Transmediale Award in the category 'Software', Berlin (2002)
  • Transmediale Public Vote Award in the categories 'Interaction' and 'Software', Berlin, Germany (2002)
  • Transmediale 'Honorary Mention' in the category 'Interaction', Berlin, Germany (2002)
  • Read_Me Festival, 'Honorary Mention', Moscow, Russia (2002)
  • Viper Swiss Award for 'Newcomers', Basel, Switzerland (2002)
  • Europrix Student's Award, Europrix (2001)

Publications (Selection)

Works in Public Collections

  • Screencast, MOCA Busan Collection, Busan, Korea (2022)
  • Pic-me V2 and Swiss Unfilterd Screencast, Art Foundation Pax, Basel, Switzerland (2021)
  • 10.000 Moving Cities AR (Augmented Reality), Art collection in the sculpture garden Schafhof - European Center for Art Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany (2020)
  • Pic-me Screencast, HeK Collection, Basel, Switzerland (2017)
  • Tracenoizer, HeK Collection, Basel, Switzerland (2017)
  • Pic-me, ZKM Collection, Karlsruhe, Germany (2016)
  • The Show Must Go On. Social Media Fights for the Presidency!, Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection, Switzerland (2016)
  • SECURITY FIRST, ZKM Collection, Karlsruhe, Germany (2016)
  • TV Bot 2.0, property of the Swiss Confederation, Federal Art Collection Bern, permanent loan to HeK, Schweiz (2014)
  • TV-Bot, Screencast, Ricola Collection, Switzerland (2011)
  • Breaking The News - Be a News-Jockey, ZKM Collection, Karlsruhe, Germany (2010)
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