Marc Lee

Installation 10.000 Moving Cities , 2013, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Installation Breaking The News , 2007, Dock18, Zurich

TV Bot, 2017, Port25, Mannheim

10,000 Moving Cities, Augmented Reality , 2018, City Library, Stuttgart

10,000 Moving Cities, Virtual Reality , 2015, ZKM, Karlsruhe

Installation Loogie.net TV , 2004, Ars Electronica, Linz

Experiment Media Donkeys , 2011, Martüel, Switzerland

Marc Lee (born March 17, 1969 in Knutwil , Lucerne ) is a Swiss media artist . He creates interactive installations , net art , performance and video art .

Live and act

From 1995 to 1999 he studied in the fine arts department of the Basel School of Design and from 2000 to 2003 in the new media department of the Zurich University of the Arts .

He experiments with information and communication technologies and locates thematic clusters that contain cultural, creative, economic and political aspects and are important for communication processes in digital networks. The work is a critical examination of these issues.

Marc Lee has exhibited at media art exhibitions such as ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, Contemporary Art Biennale Sevilla, Viper and Shift Basel, Read_Me Festival Moscow, CeC Delhi, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul.

It has received many prizes and recognitions such as the "Interaction" and "Software" awards from Transmediale Berlin and the Social Media Art Award from the Wolfsburg Phaenomenale. His art projects are in private and public collections such as the Federal Office for Culture in Bern and the ZKM Karlsruhe. He holds lectures and workshops on art and social media, media hacking, digital art and network culture in many countries and universities such as the Chinese University of the Arts (ACC) Hangzhou, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art (SIVA), Strelka Institute Moscow and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

Exhibitions (selection)

2019: International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) juried exhibition, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju, South Korea
2019: FILE SAO PAULO 2019, Electronic Language international Festival SESI Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2019: CYFEST-12: ID, The International Media Art Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019: Moving Cities, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2019: Me Myself & I, Happy Screen Art Center Nabi SK building, Seoul, South Korea
2019: NEWSBODY - BONE Performance Art Festival, Schlachthaus Theater, Bern, Switzerland
2019: Piksel19 Festival, BEK - the Bergen Center for Electronic Art, Bergen, Norway
2019: 10,000 Moving Cities, COMO Screen SKT Tower 65 Eulji-ro Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea
2019: Friends - AI & User-Generated content, PRE livepool - Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China
2019: The Kind Stranger, first exhibition of the new UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
2019: Toronto New Wave festival (TNW), Daniels Spectrum, Toronto, Canada
2019: Research Technology Urbanity, Schafhof - European Artist House Upper Bavaria, Freising, Germany
2019: xCoAx 2019, 7th International Conference on Computation - Communication - Aesthetics and X, Milan, Italy
2019: Belfast Photo Festival, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2019: Why Vote, Polit-Forum, Bern, Switzerland
2019: Marc Lee, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, England
2019: F (r) iction, Kona Gallery and Lodhi Art Festival, New Delhi, India
2019: Art Souterrain - Contemporary Art Festival, World Trade Center, Montreal, Canada
2018: 10,000 Moving Cities - Same but Different - AR, City Library, Stuttgart, Germany
2018: 8th TADAEX | Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition, Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018: Artificial Paradise ?, Künstlerhaus Halle for Art & Media, Graz, Austria
2018: Fak'ugesi Digital Africa Festival, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018: Algorithmic Lifestyle, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2018: Cairotronica 18, Palace Of Arts - Opera House Complex, Cairo, Egypt
2018: Same but Different, Synthesis Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018: The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, UCSC Digital Arts Research Center, Santa Cruz CA, USA
2018: GLOBAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP exhibitions in Białystok, Debrecen, Prague, Riga and Vilnius
2017–2018: Aesthetics of Change, MAK - 150 Years University of Applied Arts Vienna , Austria
2017–2018: Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2017–2021: End of the world - End without end, Natural History Museum Bern , Switzerland
2017: VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES, RIXC Art Science Festival, Center for New Media Culture, Riga, Latvia
2017: Kein Bild ist ein Insel, Biennale for current photography, Port25 and Buchhandlung Thalia, Mannheim, Germany
2017: Bubbling Universes, FILE FESTIVAL, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2017: DEMO DAY, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn New York, USA
2017: Non-Places, Galerie b, Stuttgart, Germany
2017: The unframed world, HeK, Basel, Switzerland
2016–2017: New GamePlay, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2016: The Show Must Go On, Situations, Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland
2016: Biennial Update_6 / NTAA, Zebrastraat Ghent, Belgium
2016: PHOTOFAIRS, Shanghai, International Art Fairs, Shanghai, China
2016: Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016: Festival Images , Vevey, Switzerland
2016–2021: GROSS, Museum der Kulturen Basel , Switzerland
2015–2016: GLOBALE: Global Control and Censorship, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2015–2016: GLOBALE: Infosphere, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
2015: 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015: Realtime Stories, action hall, red factory, Dock18 Zurich, Switzerland
2014: Swiss Art Awards, Art Basel, Switzerland
2013: Connecting_Unfolding, MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2012: Digital Art Works, The Challenges of Conservation, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2011: Gateways. Art and Networked Culture, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2010: Imagining Media, ZKM Karlsruhe , Germany
2009: Pyramid, Public Space at Banaswadi Railway Station, Bengaluru, India
2008–2009: YOU_ser. The Century of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008: 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2007: You_ser. The Century of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006: 404 Objects Not Found, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2005: Mapping new Territories, with 56k-bastard.tv, Kunsthalle St. Gallen , Switzerland
2004–2007: Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004: Transmediale.04 Festival “Fly Utopia!”, Berlin, Germany
2003: Bienal de Video Nuevos Medios, Presented from the Transmediale Festival, Santiago de Chile
2003: Ars Electronica, CODE Campus, Linz, Austria
2002: Transmediale.02 Festival “Go Public!”, Berlin, Germany
2002: Open_Source_Art_Hack, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum, New York, USA

Presentations (selection)

2019: Performance: Me Myself & I, UNArt Center, Shanghai, China
2019: Performance: Friends - AI & User-Generated content, PRE livepool - Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China
2019: Performance: Marc Lee (A / V Live), OIL Club, Shenzhen, China
2019: Artist talk: Art from User-Generated Content, NEEDS Lab, Shenzhen, China
2019: Member of the jury: International Immersive Works Competition, Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), Geneva, Switzerland
2019: Member of the jury: Prize Media in Space and Network Culture, Festival for expanded media, 32nd Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, Germany
2019: Five day workshop, Nalanda Labs, Wardha, India
2018: Workshop and artist talk, Social Media Art, ZHdK Toni Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
2018: Artist talk, Master Class, Tshimologong Precinct, Johannesburg, South Africa
2018: Lecture, Art & Technology - Social Networks; Interactivity and virtualized spaces, 16Neto, Maputo, Mozambique
2018: Previous day: Smart Politics or the digital marketplace of political debate, The Political Dimension of Art, Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil, Germany
2018: Lecture, DIGITAL WORLD - Analogue Experience, Compatibility Check Digital Media and Art, University of Bern, Switzerland
2017: Plums Festival - audiovisual experiments festival, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2017: Meet the Artist - Social Media Art, a virtual journey through social networks, Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland
2016: Workshop "Making Your Own Net Art", Cinnamon Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2016: Workshop "Artistic practices and social media", Desmond Tutu Center, Cape Town, South Africa
2015: Lecture, Virtual trip through social networks, Strelka, Moscow, Russia
2015: Cybernetics Seminar, Department of Art & Media, ZHdK Zurich, Switzerland
2014: Symposium “Farewell New media Art”, China Academy of Art (CAA), Hangzhou, China
2013: Workshop and curator / artist talk, MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2013: Workshop and presentation, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2011: Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China
2011: Rockbund Art Museum , Shanghai , China
2011: Media Hacking, workshop for students, SIVA Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China
2011: Collecting: Discussion on collecting and conserving digital art, Haus EK, Basel, Switzerland
2010: Test_Lab - Tools for Propaganda, V2_, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010: Artistic-scientific employee, specialization in media arts, ZHDK Zurich
2010: Media Hacking Workshop for Artists, Cultural Center, Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo
2009: Srishti Art College, Bangalore, India
2009: Freedom of Art in the Digital Age, ZKM Lecture Hall, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008: Basics Festival, FH Salzburg, Institute MultiMediaArt, Salzburg, Austria
2008: Querblicke, N | W FH, Institute of Media Art, Aarau, Switzerland
2006: Edith RussHaus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2006: CaC & CeC, Carnival of e-Creativity, India International Center, Delhi, India
2006: Art Center Nabi and in the Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2004: Viper 04 Art Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2003: Loogie.net, [plug_in] Forum for new Media, Basel, Switzerland
2003: Viper 03 Art Festival, Basel, Switzerland
2002: Transmediale.02 Festival “Go Public!”, Berlin, Germany

Awards (selection)

2017 and 2018: Shortlist of the Net-Based Art Awards, Kunstbulletin and HeK, Switzerland
2017: Bogdanka Poznanović Award for the best Media Installation, Live piece, Software, URL, 21st Videomedeja
2015: Social Media Art Award, Phaenomenale 2015, Wolfsburg, Germany
2014: Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division, Jury Selection, Tokyo, Japan
2010: ZKM scholarship in Karlsruhe, January – March 2010
2009: Pro Helvetia Residency in Bangalore, January-June 2009
2008: Net art competition for Internet, Hamburg, Germany
2008: SuMa Award 2008, Berlin, Germany
2006: Viper International Award 2006 in the “Transposition” category, Basel, Switzerland
2005: Viper 2005, nomination, Basel
2004: Switch Award 2004, nomination, Bern
2003: Honorary Mentions, Mediankunst Festival Ars Electronica Prices, Linz, Austria
2003: Promotion Prize 2003, Award of University of Art and Design, HGK Zurich, Switzerland
2003: tpc CreaTVty award 2003 of new media, TPC Zurich, Switzerland
2002: Viper Swiss Award 2002 "for Newcomers", Basel
2002: Read_Me Festival 2002, “Honorary Mention”, Moscow
2002: Transmediale 2002 “Honorary Mention” in the “Interaction” category, Berlin
2002: Transmediale Public Vote Award 2002 in the categories "Interaction" and "Software", Berlin
2002: Transmediale Award 2002 in the category "Software", Berlin

Fonts (selection)

2019: LUX AETERNA - ISEA 2019 Art, Catalog
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 ( ISBN 9788589730297 )
2019: Research TECHNOLOGY URBANITY, Schafhof - European Center for Art Upper Bavaria
2019: Marc Lee: Non-Places, Annka Kultys Gallery
2018: The Internet of other people's things, Book ( ISBN 978-3-9504200-1-2 )
2018: Faceless - Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies ( ISBN 978-3-11-052771-1 )
2018: Media Arts in Switzerland / Media Arts in Switzerland ( ISBN 978-3-85616-867-4 )
2017: Farewell Photography, Biennale for Contemporary Photography ( ISBN 9783960982050 )
2017: Bubbling Universes - FILE SÃO PAULO 2017 ( ISBN 9788589730235 )
2017: THE UNFRAMED WORLD, virtual reality as an artistic medium, Sabine Himmelsbach ( ISBN 978-3-85616-850-6 )
2017: New Gameplay - Nam June Paik Art Center, Jinsuk Suh ( ISBN 978-89-971283-3-4 )
2016: Update 6, New Technological Art Award. International Exhibition ( ISBN 9789492321473 )
2016: Festival Images Vevey 2016 ( ISBN 9782970081777 )
2015: Poetics and Politics of Data, HeK, S. Himmelsbach and C. Mareis ( ISBN 978-3-85616-681-6 )
2015: 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, Award-winning Works, Tokyo
2014: Inauguration, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea ( ISBN 978-89-6303-069-2 )
2014: Chinese magazine Art Times, email interview Marc Lee
2014: LandEscape Art Review November 2014 Special Issue
2013: Preservation of Digital Art, Theory and Practice ( ISBN 978-3-7091-1469-8 )
2012: Masterpieces of Art - Media Art ( ISBN 978-3-7883-9215-4 )
2012: Big News, Art World Magazine Shanghai ( ISSN 1005-7722 )
2011: gateways. Art and Networked Culture ( ISBN 978-3-7757-2796-9 )
2010: What to do. Figures of protest. Tactics of Resistance ( ISBN 3-99014-014-0 )
2010: Owning Online Art - Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks 2010, FHNW, Basel
2008: Media Art Zurich. 13 positions ( ISBN 978-3-85881-210-0 )
2008: Digital Playground 2008, "Hack the City!" ( ISBN 978-89-961789-0-3 )
2006: 404 Object Not Found_Seoul 2006
2005: Mapping New Territories. Swiss Media Art International ( ISBN 978-3-85616-238-2 )
2004: Digital Transformations, whoiswho.de ( ISBN 3-934013-38-4 )
2004: read_me, Software Art & Cultures Edition 2004 ( ISBN 87-98844-040 )
2004: MetaWorx - Young Swiss Interactive. Approaches to Interactivity ( ISBN 3-7643-0089-2 )
2004: 56kTV - bastard channel MAGAZINE

Individual evidence

↑ Biography Marc Lee . Marc Lee. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
^ Exhibition and Catalog: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul . MMCA Seoul. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
^ ZKM Collection: Marc Lee . ZKM. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
^ Exhibition: The Show Must Go On . ZKM, Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
↑ Exhibition: Virtualities AND REALITIES . RIXC ART SCIENCE FESTIVAL. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
^ Exhibition: Bubbling Universes . file - electronic language international festival. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
^ Exhibition: Non-Places . Marc Lee. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
↑ Exhibition: The Unframed World . House of Electronic Arts Basel. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
^ Exhibition: New Gameplay . Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Retrieved on December 17, 2016. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / njpac-en.ggcf.kr

^ Exhibition: Marc Lee, The Show Must Go On. Social Media Fights for the Presidency! . Winterthur Photo Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

↑ The exhibition and catalog: GLOBAL GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany . ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

↑ The exhibition and catalog: GLOBAL: infosphere, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany . ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

^ Exhibitions and three-year digital art conservation project (2010-2012) . ZKM Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

↑ Exhibition and Catalog: YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer . ZKM Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

↑ Event: Social Media Art, a virtual journey through social networks . Xenix cinema, Zurich. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

↑ Lecture and Workshp: Marc Lee, Making Your Own Net Art . Colomboscope. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

↑ Lecture: Marc Lee, Virtual trip through social networks . Strelka Moskova. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

↑ Awards 2017 . Videomedeja festival. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

↑ Social Media Art Award . Phenomenal. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

↑ LUX AETERNA - ISEA 2019 Art Catalog . ISEA. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

↑ Catalog of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X . xCoAx. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

↑ Catalog Research TECHNOLOGY URBANITY . Eike Berg. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

↑ TV Bot: The ultimately latest news from the world's definitely most up to date television station . Inke Arns. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

Web links

Marc Lee's website

Famous works:

personal data
SURNAME	Lee, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss media and computer artist
DATE OF BIRTH	17th March 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Knutwil , Lucerne

[1] Biography Marc Lee . Marc Lee. Retrieved February 17, 2017.

[2] Exhibition and Catalog: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul . MMCA Seoul. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[3] ZKM Collection: Marc Lee . ZKM. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

[4] Exhibition: The Show Must Go On . ZKM, Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[5] Exhibition: Virtualities AND REALITIES . RIXC ART SCIENCE FESTIVAL. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[6] Exhibition: Bubbling Universes . file - electronic language international festival. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[7] Exhibition: Non-Places . Marc Lee. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[8] Exhibition: The Unframed World . House of Electronic Arts Basel. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[9] Exhibition: New Gameplay . Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul. Retrieved on December 17, 2016. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / njpac-en.ggcf.kr

[10] Exhibition: Marc Lee, The Show Must Go On. Social Media Fights for the Presidency! . Winterthur Photo Museum. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

[11] The exhibition and catalog: GLOBAL GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany . ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

[12] The exhibition and catalog: GLOBAL: infosphere, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany . ZKM Karlsruhe. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

[13] Exhibitions and three-year digital art conservation project (2010-2012) . ZKM Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[14] Exhibition and Catalog: YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer . ZKM Karlsruhe. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2015.

[15] Event: Social Media Art, a virtual journey through social networks . Xenix cinema, Zurich. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[16] Lecture and Workshp: Marc Lee, Making Your Own Net Art . Colomboscope. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2016.

[17] Lecture: Marc Lee, Virtual trip through social networks . Strelka Moskova. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

[18] Awards 2017 . Videomedeja festival. Retrieved November 2, 2017.

[19] Social Media Art Award . Phenomenal. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2015.

[20] LUX AETERNA - ISEA 2019 Art Catalog . ISEA. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

[21] Catalog of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X . xCoAx. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

[22] Catalog Research TECHNOLOGY URBANITY . Eike Berg. Retrieved December 27, 2019.

[23] TV Bot: The ultimately latest news from the world's definitely most up to date television station . Inke Arns. Retrieved January 15, 2015.