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Lawrence Lek is an artist and director. With the help of game software, 3D animation, installations and performances, he creates virtual worlds of his speculative films. Exploring the influence of the virtual on the politics of creativity, he often places his fictional or non-human characters in alternative versions of real places. Lives and works in London.
1982 - Born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2004 - BA Architecture, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
2008 - AA Diploma, Architectural Association, London, England
2012 - Master of Architecture II, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2022 - PhD, Royal College of Art, London, England
Most Popular Lawrence Lek Trailers
Total trailers found: 14
08 April 2016
The story begins with an anonymous Glaswegian artist-philanthropist who intends to bring the transatlantic ocean liner into the heart of the city and convert it into a new home for the Glasgow School of Art.
15 March 2024
An experiment in collective ownership of intellectual property.
14 February 2016
Born in 1942 to a chemist who worked at the factory in the courtyard where Kunst Werke now stands, the artist looks back on over sixty years’ worth of her practice in sculpture, video, and performance.
17 January 2018
Pyramid Schemes is a treatise on architecture in eleven chapters. Lawrence Lek offers a sweeping journey through the evolution of architecture—spaces that reflect and inscribe power structures—by interfusing scenes from the video game Assassin’s Creed with other simulated environments.
21 August 2016
Sinofuturism is a video essay combining elements of science fiction, documentary melodrama, social realism, and Chinese cosmologies, in order to critique the present-day dilemmas of China and the people of its diaspora.
18 April 2019
This computer-generated fantasy tells the story of a fading superstar, Diva, who enlists an aspiring AI songwriter to mount a comeback performance at the 2065 eSports Olympic finale.
12 May 2026
Examining interrogation as a performed scene, staged through gesture, repetition, set-up, and technical props.
21 July 2022
This CGI animation follows a self-driving police car in a desolate landscape. In dialogue with a built-in therapist, they contemplate the meaning of freedom and lament their uselessness.
23 January 2024
Lawrence Lek directs an animated court drama where the defendant is a driverless car accused of kidnapping its own creator.
22 March 2017
Heralded by the futuristic computer-generated cityscapes that have become a signature feature of his work, Lawrence Lek’s mini-opus Geomancer is less inclined to map the building blocks of the urban architecture of tomorrow than to try and summon up the spirit of our rapidly dawning age - one whose characteristics, Lek implies, include the growing ascendancy of the cultural phenomenon of Sino-Futurism.
20 February 2021
Temple is a guided CGI tour through a ghostly nightclub of evacuated London: a space filled with ethereal dance anthems of the near future.
27 October 2023
At the end of its rehabilitation programme, self-driving car Enigma-76 is led by Dakota, a therapy horse, through a series of subterranean landscapes.
27 October 2023
Introduces Engima-76, a self-driving car taking part in a five-day rehabilitation programme at NOX, a corporate centre for "nonhuman excellence.
11 June 2016
Nøtel explores the dark humour of automated hospitality and corporate aesthetics. Originally started as a series of audio-visual performances with electronic musician Kode9, the project has developed into physical manifestations.
