Marc Lee

Marc Lee
Born	(1969-03-17) March 17, 1969 Knutwil, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Education	University of Art and Design, Basel and Zurich
Known for	New media art
Notable work	Loogie.net, Open News Network, Breaking the news, 10'000 moving cities, Realtime stories
Movement	Performance and Interactive Media Arts
Awards	Social Media Art Award and Transmediale Awards in the categories "Interaction" and "Software"
Website	http://1go1.net

Skin the skulpture, 2013, Organhaus, Chongqing, China

10.000 moving cities, 2013, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

Breaking The News, 2007, Dock 18, Zürich, Switzerland

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

Media Donkeys, 2011, Martüel, Switzerland

Marc Lee (born March 17, 1969), is a Swiss new media artist working in the fields of interactive installation art, internet art, performance art and video art.

Biography

Lee was born in 1969 in Knutwil, Lucerne, in Switzerland.^[1] He studied at the Basel University of Art and Design installation and at the Zurich University of the Arts new media art through 2003.^[2]

Lee creates network-oriented interactive projects since 1999. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies. His projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative issues. His artworks reflect the visions and limits of our information society in an intelligent and artistic manner.

Marc Lee has exhibited in major art exhibitions including: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, Contemporary Art Biennale Sevilla, Media Art Biennale Seoul, Viper and Shift Festival Basel, Read_Me Festival Moskau, CeC Dehli, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo and National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul.^[3]

Lee's work are in private and public collections including the Federal Art Collection Switzerland and the ZKM Karlsruhe^[4] and he has won many prices and honorary mentions at international festivals, including Transmediale Berlin and Ars Electronica Linz

Exhibitions (Selection)

2015-2016 – GLOBALE: Infosphäre, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany^[5]
2015-2016 – GLOBALE: GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany^[6]
2015 – 18th Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2014 – Federal Office for culture of Switzerland, 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^[7]
2011 – Gateways. Art and Networked Culture, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2010 – IMAGINING MEDIA, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 – Pyramid, public space beside Banaswadi Railway Station, Bengaluru, India
2008-2009 – YOU_ser 2.0, Celebration of the Consumer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany^[8]
2008 – 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2007 – You_ser. Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004–2007 – Algorithmic Revolution, ZKM Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 – 404 Objects Not Found, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2005 – Mapping new Territories, with 56k-bastard.tv, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
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 and Workshops (Selection)

2015 - Lecture, Virtual trip through social networks, Strelka, Moscow, Russia^[9]
2015 - Kybernetik 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, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 – Workshop and Presentation, Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2012 – Four site-specific works, POT, top e.V, Kassel, Germany
2011 – Media Hacking, Workshop for Students, SIVA Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China
2011 – RockBund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011 – Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China
2011 – Collecting: Discussion of collecting and preserving digital art, Haus EK, Basel, Switzerland
2010 – Media Hacking Workshop for Artists, Cultural Center, Ahmed Shawky Museum, Cairo
2010 – Teaching Programming for Artists, net art, hacking, Department Media Arte, ZHDK Zurich
2010 – Test_Lab - Tools for Propaganda, V2_, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009 – The Freedom of Art in the Digital Era, ZKM Lecture Hall, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 – Srishti School of Art, Bangalore, India
2008 – Basics Festival, FH Salzburg, Department MultiMediaArt, Salzburg, Austria
2006 – Edith Ruß House for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2006 – CaC & CeC, Carnival of e-Creativity, India International Center, Delhi, Indien
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 and Honorary Mentions (Selection)

2015 - Social Media Art Award, Phaenomenale 2015, Wolfsburg, Germany
2014 - Japan Media Arts Festival, Art Division, Jury Selection, Tokyo, Japan
2010 – ZKM Stipend, Karlsruhe, January - March 2010
2009 – Pro Helvetia Residency in Bangalore, January - June 2009
2008 – SuMa Award 2008, Berlin, Germany
2008 – Netart Award 2008, Hamburg, Germany
2006 – Viper International Award 2006 in the category "Transposition", Basel, Switzerland
2004 – Switch Award 2004, Nomination, Bern, Switzerland
2003 – tpc CreaTVty award 2003 of new media, TPC Zurich, Switzerland
2003 – Förderpreis 2003, Award of University of Art and Design, HGK Zurich, Switzerland
2003 – Honorary Mentions, media art festival Ars Electronica Prices, Linz, Austria
2002 – Transmediale Award 2002 in the category "Software", Berlin
2002 – Transmediale Public Vote Award 2002 in the categories "Interaction" and "Software", Berlin, Germany
2002 – Transmediale 2002 "Honorary Mention" in the category "Interaction", Berlin, Germany
2002 – Read_Me Festival 2002, "Honorary Mention", Moscow
2002 – Viper Swiss Award 2002 "for Newcomers", Basel, Switzerland

Publications (Selection)

2015 - Poetics and Politics of Data, HeK, S. Himmelsbach, 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 – Meisterwerke der Kunst - Medienkunst (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 – Was tun. Figuren des Protests. Taktiken des Widerstands (ISBN 3-99014-014-0)
2010 - Owning Online Art – Selling and Collecting Netbased Artworks 2010, FHNW, Basel
2008 – Media Arts Zurich, 13 Positiones (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. Schweizer Medienkunst International (ISBN 978-3-85616-238-2)
2004 – Digitale Transformationen, whoiswho.de (ISBN 3-934013-38-4)
2004 – read_me, Software Art & Cultures Edition 2004 (ISBN 978-87-988440-4-4)
2004 – MetaWorx – Young Swiss Interactive. Approaches to Interactivity (ISBN 3-7643-0089-2)
2004 - 56kTV - bastard channel MAGAZIN^[10]

References

↑ "Biography Marc Lee". Marc Lee.
↑ "Zurich University of the Arts". ZHDK Zurich. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013.
↑ "Exhibition and Catalog: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul". MMCA Seoul. Archived from the original on June 9, 2015.
↑ "ZKM Collection: Marc Lee". ZKM.
↑ "Exhibition: GLOBALE: Infosphere". ZKM Karlsruhe.
↑ "Exhibition: GLOBALE: GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP". ZKM Karlsruhe.
↑ "Exhibitions and three-year digital art conservation project (2010-2012)". ZKM Karlsruhe.
↑ "Exhibition and Catalog: YOU_ser 2.0: Celebration of the Consumer". ZKM Karlsruhe.
↑ "Lecture: Marc Lee, Virtual trip through social networks". Strelka Moskova.
↑ "TV Bot: The ultimately latest news from the world's definitely most up to date television station". Inke Arns.

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