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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
In many projects, Marc Lee uses user-generated content – posts from social networks.
In traditional photography and video art, it’s an artist group or single artist who decides what will be shown. Using user-generated content, people all over the world receive a voice by sharing their thoughts and stories on social networks. They offer personal perspectives from their immediate surroundings, providing windows into a changing world. Collectively, these posts provide a comprehensive picture of the world that becomes part of the artwork. The viewer engages with this artwork by witnessing and reflecting on the social movements of our time. In that way, we are able to contemplate our lives, hopes, wishes and especially the culture of the younger generation – perhaps in a more contemporary manner than through traditional art forms. Such artworks are changing and alter continuously. They are never the same – always new.
