Infrastrukturen
Galerie für Gegenwartskunst E-Werk, Freiburg, GermanyCurator: Heidi Brunnschweiler
Solo show
E-Werk, Freiburg
Marc Lee | Loss of Diversity
In his net-based works, Marc Lee experiments with digital infrastructures that shape our information and data age. He uses real-time processed, computer-programmed audiovisual installations, AR, VR and mobile apps to create imagery that mirrors our contemporary world. At the heart of Lee’s works is the question whether digital infrastructure is realizing the utopian potential of a more inclusive and diverse society, or whether it rather manipulates and contributes to polarization and homogenization.
Exhibited Artwork
Non-Places
16-Channel Video Installation, 16 x HD 1080p 4'30'' StereoNon-Places deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. In the synchronized videos, the user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as Flickr, Freesound, Twitter and YouTube. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. more …
Galerie b, Stuttgart
E-Werk, Freiburg
Galerie b, Stuttgart
10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, Mobile App
Mobile App as Interface for Net-Based Installations10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, Mobile App is an interactive web-based app for smartphones and tablets. With this app you can see and hear what's happening in real-time around the world. An endless flow of countless stories. You experience how our world is constantly changing and how more and more places are becoming non-places, as described in Marc Augé’s book and essay Non-places. more …
Cairotronica, Cairo
Annka Kultys Gallery, London
Synthesis Gallery, Berlin
10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, AR (Augmented Reality)
Mobile App, AR Multiplayer GameHigh towers rise into the sky, every place becomes a city. With the Augmented Reality App 10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different one moves between the imaginary buildings via smartphone and tablet and participates in the digital communication streams and social movements of our time by means of inserted Social Media Posts. The buildings can be destroyed and rebuilt by the users. But beware! more …
College of Arts, Chandigarh
City Library, Stuttgart
City Library, Stuttgart
Used to Be My Home Too
Real-time cartographyThis experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped 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 automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …
OnCurating Project Space, Zurich
HEK, Basel
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Unfiltered – TikTok and the Emerging Face of Culture
Net-Based Multi Screen InstallationWith unprecedented and ever increasing access to mobile phones and the internet, digital hierarchies are being broken. Platforms like TikTok are the new town hall, with ‘influence’ no longer restricted to the urban elite. What have been the missing voices within mainstream narratives? Can their messages truly help shape an inclusive, socially conscious future? What impact does positive content more …
SPACE10, New Delhi
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
ICA, Yerevan
SECURITY FIRST
Mixed Media InstallationIn this installation, Marc Lee shows the wonderful world of surveillance technology. On a shelf are cameras in all possible forms: hidden spy cams, surveillance cams, night vision webcams, real-looking dummy cams. As a counter-design to the utopia of total security through camera surveillance, Lee shows the website insecam.org: The visitors of the website have access to the images of thousands more …
Art Hall, Tallinn
ZKM, Karlsruhe
ZKM, Karlsruhe
New Media Art Reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic, 24/7 Online
Interactive Net-Based InstallationCorona TV Bot The Corona TV Bot thematises and reflects the Coronavirus Pandemic through social media contributions. On hashtags like Coronavirus and COVID-19, the latest Twitter and YouTube news are interwoven into a wild TV show, 24/7 online. Images, tweets and videos flicker across the screen in real time in this net art project. Time-based resources that combine both worldwide professional more …
re:publica campus, Berlin
Railway Station, St. Moritz
C/O Berlin Foundation, Berlin