Links
Academic
Essay, ‘After Sinofuturism’ (with Dr Steve Goodman & Dr Anna Greenspan), in the book ‘Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of AI’, Published by MIT Press. (Upcoming 2022)https://lbahp.mitpress.mit.edu/books/machine-decision-not-final
SFRA Review - Special Issue on Alternative Sinofuturisms, Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), Ed. Virginia Conn, vol. 50, no. 2-3 (Spring-Summer 2020)https://sfrareview.org/category/50-2-3/special-issue-alternative-sinofuturisms-%E4%B8%AD%E5%8D%8E%E6%9C%AA%E6%9D%A5%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89-zhongua-weilai-zhuyi/
Essay, ‘Documents of Contemporary Art: Science Fiction’, Ed. Dan Byrne-Smith, Published by Whitechapel Gallery / MIT Press (2019)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/science-fiction-1
Interviews / Press
Interview, LIFE Magazine China (in Chinese) (2022)
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kVoEG39Pk-Dkjyc5_RZcjg
Financial Times, ‘The futuristic visions of multimedia artist Lawrence Lek’ (2021)https://www.ft.com/content/f3c1065b-c740-47e8-b70a-80eda9094941
Exhibition and Discussion at ‘The New Normal’, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, (2017)https://ucca.org.cn/en/program/screening-conversation-2//
Masterclasses
Presentation at KI-Camp, a conference for AI sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, German Informatics Society, Berlin (2021)
https://kicamp.org/en/programme
Screening at EU-Funded Conference on Existential Risk, NEEDS 2020, the fifth edition of the Northern European Conference on Emergency and Disaster Studies, hosted by Mid Sweden University and organized by the Risk and Crisis Research Centre, Östersund, Sweden (March 2020)https://indico2.conference4me.psnc.pl/event/28/timetable/?print=1&view=standard
Presentation on Technology and Art, Zurich HdK Zurich, Switzerland, 2021https://zurichmade.zhdk.ch/refresh-4/masterclasses/lawrence-lek/
Talk ‘Sinofuturism: A Conspiracy?’, NYU Shanghai, 2017
https://www.smartshanghai.com/event/46539
Presentation at Visual Arts Centre of Clarington and Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, June 2020
https://centrea.org/2020/05/sinofuturism-1839-2046-ad/
Exhibitions
Exhibition at ‘The Sea is Glowing’, Rijeka City of Culture themed around the New Silk Road (April-October 2020) https://rijeka2020.eu/en/program/dopolavoro/art-exhibitions/the-sea-is-glowing/
Exhibition at ‘Holen und Bringen (Hold and Bring)’, Werkleitz Festival themed around logistics, Halle, Germany, 2018. https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/de/projekte/film_und_neue_medien/detail/werkleitz_festival_2018_holen_und_bringen.html
Participant, Singapore Biennale 2019, exhibition of open-world game at Asian Civilisations Museum https://www.singaporebiennale.org/art/lawrence-lek
Exhibition, 2019 Shenzhen New Media Art Festival http://www.asasas.org/Portal/en-US/Artist/Detail/5a2440d3-6136-982b-b452-a9e6c7bdbe9c
‘Sinofuturism (1839-2046)’ Video acquired and presented at Princeton University Art Museum, 2020
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/mhv/story/lawrence-leks-virtual-worlds
Grand Prix Award Winner, VH Award for new media artists sponsored by Hyundai Motor Corporation. https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/430748/fourth-vh-award-grand-prix-winner-lawrence-lek/