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Marc Lee is a Swiss artist
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 apps. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies and within his contemporary art practice, he reflects critically creative, cultural, social, ecological and political aspects. His artworks reflect the visions and limits of our information society in an intelligent manner and question this critically.
Marc Lee’s projects 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 has won many awards and honorary mentions at international festivals, including “Interaction” and “Software” Awards at Transmediale Berlin and the Social-Media-Art-Award at Phaenomenale Wolfsburg, Pax Art Award Basel and the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture, Stuttgart.
Marc Lee’s works are in private and public collections like the Swiss Confederation Federal Art Collection Bern, HeK Basel, Fotomuseum Winthertur and the ZKM Karlsruhe.
He is lecturing, teaching and holding workshops about art and social media, contemporary digital art, media hacking, electronic art and network culture in many art schools including 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.
Art with social networks
As a media artist, Marc Lee often uses user-generated content to actively involve exhibition visitors in the artistic process. By integrating contributions from social networks, he gives people a voice and makes their thoughts and stories a central component of his projects. These artworks are not static, but in a constant state of flux. They reflect the dynamics of our interconnected world, allowing us to participate in social movements and understand current issues and concerns in society. By incorporating user-generated content, our lives, hopes, aspirations and cultures become visible on a global scale. Generative art, as created by Marc Lee, amplifies this effect. Algorithms create unpredictable patterns and evolutions that turn artworks into living, ever-changing organisms. Unlike the controlled aesthetics of traditional media such as photography or video art, generative art allows for interactivity and the confluence of unplanned elements. The result are artworks that, like nature itself, are constantly evolving.
