Selected Press
| 2024 |
‘The Future Is Always Now’, Frieze, 09 October 2024, pp. 12-13 Alex Quicho, ‘What Can Machines Teach Us About Being Human?’, Frieze, 04 October 2024 MZ Adnan, ‘Artist Lawrence Lek is using AI to explore whether robots can suffer’, Financial Times, 05 October 2024 ‘AA alum Lawrence Lek receives Frieze Artist Award 2024 and is named by TIME as one of the most influential people working in AI’, AA School, 23 September 2024 Caroline Haskins, ‘Lawrence Lek’, Time, 05 September 2024 Chris Waywell ‘Back to the Future: Choi Goen and Lawrence Lek’, Frieze, 04 September 2024 Alex Greenberger, ’25 Essential AI Artworks’, ArtNews, 20 August 2024 Sam Gaskin, ‘Lawrence Lek receives Frieze London Artist Award 2024’, Ocula, 04 July 2024 ‘Lawrence Lek Announced as Winner of the Frieze London 2024 Artist Award’, Frieze, 03 July 2024 ‘Lawrence Lek Wins the Frieze London Artist Prize, and Other News’, Surface, 09 July 2024 Maxwell Rabb, ‘Frieze London Artist Prize 2024 is awarded to filmmaker Lawrence Lek’ Artsy, 05 July 2024 Giorgi Razmadze, ‘Lawrence Lek’, Amarta Magazine, Spring / Summer 2024, pp. 118-213 Mark Westall, ‘Lawrence Lek Awarded The 2024 Artist Award At Frieze London’, Fad Magazine, 05 July 2024 Sofia Hallström, ‘Lawrence Lek Is Awarded the 2024 Frieze Artist Award’, Elephant, 03 July 2024 Eleonora Milani, ‘Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024 at Centre d’Art Contemporain’, Spike, Spring 2024 ‘The ICA is hosting a day-long event exploring AI and creativity’, Dazed, 19 February 2024 Amah-Rose Adams, ‘Artists consider the cosmic movie camera at Biennial de l’Image En Movement 2024’ Wallpaper*, 16 February 2024 Nicolas Vamvouklis, ‘In conversation with Andrea Bellini and Nors N. Khan’ Fondazione Imago Mundi, Issue #28, February 2024 ‘Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024: A Cosmic Movie Camera’, E-Flux Film, 22 January 2024 ‘Gray Area Grand Theater: View Finder: Speculative Simulation Film Program AIDOL (2019) by Lawrence Lek’, Mission Local, 19 January 2024 |
| 2023 |
‘Lawrence Lek: NOX: Impulses, discursive series’, E-flux, 11 December 2023 Emily Steer, ‘Lawrence Lek’s depressed self-driving cars offer a glimpse of an AI future in Berlin’, Wallpaper*, 29 November 2023 Kiran Sandem, ‘Interview: Hito Steyerl & Lawrence Lek’, FACT Magazine, 24 November 2023 Gunseli Yalcinkaya, ‘Inside Lawrence Lek’s rehab clinic for depressed self-driving cars’, Dazed, 21 November 2023 Bogna Konior, ‘Expectation Boulevard’, Spike Art Magazine, Issue 77, Autumn 2023, pp. 82-91 Lawrence Lek, ‘Lawrence Lek’, CURA, Issue 40, Spring Summer 2023 Hans Ulrich Obrist, ‘Art and Gaming: What Elements Should Every Game Have?’, Fact Magazine, 28 June 2023 Naomi Rea, ‘How Hardcore Can Art Get? Does A.I. Need Therapy? And Other Thoughts in the Air at London Gallery Weekend?’, Artnet News, 05 June 2023 Eddy Frankel, ‘Lawrence Lek: ‘Black Cloud Highway’’, Time Out, 02 June 2023 Matteo Bittanti, ‘Game Art: Lawrence Lek's Theta's World (2023, Online and Beijing, China)’, Game Scenes, 01 June 2023 Jemma Foster, ‘Geomancer’, Wild Alchemy Lab, 58, June 2023 Steve Goodman, ‘Interview - Lawrence Lek’, Metrograph, June 2023 Eli Anapur, ‘Lawrence Lek Presents a New Site-Specific Iteration of His CGI-Film Black Cloud at Sadie Coles HQ’, Widewalls, 21 May 2023 ‘Works in Focus: Nepenthe (Summer Palace Ruins) | Lawrence Lek’, Generazione Critica, February 2023 ArtReview Editors, ’10 Ways to Kickstart Your Year in the Artworld’, ArtReview, 04 January 2023 |
| 2022 |
Venus Lau, ‘The Future of Memory’, ArtReview, 06 December 2022 ‘Art Lovers Movie Club: Lawrence Lek, ‘Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD)’’, ArtReview, 25 August 2022 John McDonald, ‘Unreality bites: Searching for substance at the MCA’s new exhibition’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 04 August 2022 Henry Bruce-Jones, ‘Future Shock: Lawrence Lek’, Fact Magazine, 21 July 2022 Fi Churchman, ‘Lawrence Lek Tests the Limits of Consciousness’, Art Review, 12 July 2022 Fi Churchman, ‘Where Is My Mind? Lawrence Lek explores the edgelands of consciousness, disembodied intelligence and existential suffering’, ArtReview Asia, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer 2022, pp. 30-39 Claire Voon, ‘Enter the Labyrinth’, Hyundai Artlab, 24 June 2022 Will Jennings, ‘’Worldbuilding’ exhibition review: a trip through the uncanny valley of art and gaming’, Wallpaper, 17 June 2022 Günseli Yalcinkaya, ‘Hans Ulrich Obrist on how video games are revolutionising the art world’, Dazed, 17 June 2022 ‘Spotlight: Artist Lawrence Lek Melds Video-Game Technology and Eerie Films to Peer Into Our A.I.-Dominated Future’, Artnet News, 15 June 2022 Dorian Batycka, ‘How Artists Are Increasingly Blurring the Lines Between Fine Art and Video Games’, Artnet News, 15 June 2022 ‘Frieze New York Diary: cyborgian bacchanalia, a sentient self-driving car and a Gagosian vending machine’, The Art Newspaper, 20 May 2022 Emily Dinsdale, ‘The immersive art show blurring the boundaries of the physical and virtual’, Dazed, 12 May 2022 ‘Future Shock exhibition opens at 180 Studios with new immersive works by Caterina Barbieri, UVA, Weirdcore, Gaika, Romain Gavras, Ryoichi Kurokawa and more’, FACT, March 2022 Stephanie Bailey, ‘Art Dubai 2022: Artist Highlights’, Ocula, 16 March 2022 Alexandra Chaves, ‘‘'Nepenthe Valley': how artist Lawrence Lek built a virtual world of healing at Art Dubai’, The National News, 12 March 2022 |
| 2021 |
Mitra Abbaspour, ‘Lawrence Lek’s Virtual Worlds’, Princeton University Art Museum, Winter 2021 Magazine, pp. 4-5 ‘Fourth VH AWARD Grand Prix Winner: Lawrence Lek’, e-flux, 11 November 2021 Mark Westall, ‘WE TALK TO LAWRENCE LEK GRAND PRIX WINNER OF THE 4TH VH AWARD.’, FAD Magazine, 10 November 2021 Nuray Bulbuk, ‘Hyundai names Lawrence Lek winner of VH Award for new media art’, Wallpaper, 10 November 2021 Sam Gaskin, ‘Lawrence Lek Wins VH Award for Asian New Media Artists’, Ocula Magazine, 10 November 2021 Victoria Chan, ‘Virtual Reality Artwork Wins The 4th VH Award’, ArtAsiaPacific, 10 November 2021 ‘Lawrence Lek Wins the Grand Prix at Hyundai Motor Group’s 4th VH AWARD’, Hyperallergic, 09 November 2021 ‘Lawrence Lek for New Mystics: posthuman creativity & weirded climates in a new text collaboration between writer, artist & AI’, AQNB, 22 September 2021 Lauren Moya Ford, ‘LACMA Announces New Art + Technology Lab Grant Winners’, Hyperallergic, 14 July 2021 Tina Rivers Ryan, ‘Token Gesture’, Art Forum, Vol 59, No. 9, May 2021, pp. 65 - 66 |
| 2020 |
Cameron Lee, ‘Confronting ‘virtual’ dualities in the work of multimedia artist Lawrence Lek’, The Daily Princetonian, 06 December 2020 Kareem Ghezawi, ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Lawrence Lek's AIDOL 爱道 OST’, The Quietus, 03 December 2020 ‘Speculative imaginings on AI, authenticity & a future Singapore in Lawrence Lek’s AIDOL 爱道 (OST)’, AQNB, 27 November 2020 Tom Faber, ‘The Futuristic Visions of Multimedia Artist Lawrence Lek’ Financial Times, 18 November 2020 ‘Spotlight: Lawrence Lek in conversation with Alex Quicho’, CURA 35, The Changing World, Fall-Winter 2020, pp. 102-115 Fanny Singer, ‘Uncanny Valley: Being Human in the Age of AI’, Frieze, no. 212, July/August 2020, pp. 50-51 ‘Art of Gaming’, Wallpaper* China, 17 June 2020 Vladimir Shlygin, ‘Empathy For The Machine: Inside Lawrence Lek’s Virtual Worlds’, Strelka Mag, 15 May 2020 ‘Nøtel Lawrence Lek and Kode9. Scary Artificial Intelligence Hospitality’, Project Russia, 09 April 2020 Mahoro Seward: ‘The CGI artist merging human and artificial experience’, i-D Magazine, 24 March 2020 VF Team: ‘Lawrence Lek conjures "soundtrack to an unreal nightclub" in new Temple OST’, Vinyl Factory, 24 March 2020 Caterina Riva, ‘AI, Celebrities and Singapore: An Interview with Lawrence Lek’, SoFar, 11 March 2020 Matt Turner, ‘Using AI to Question What Art Is’, Hyperallergic, 11 February 2020 |
| 2019 | Toh Wen Li, ‘Curators' art picks: Six works you don't want to miss at the upcoming Singapore Biennale’, Straits Times, 18 November 2019
Lawrence Lek, ‘Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD)’, Arts of the Working Class, No. 8: Beyond the Metaphysics of the West, Fall Issue, October 2019, pp. 21-23 ‘AI, the exact embodiment of Sinofuturism’, Tenyun, October 2019 ‘Lawrence Lek’s “Farsight Freeport”: A Journey into the Year 2069’, Digicult, 10 September 2019 Tom Faber, ‘When does a video game become art?’, Financial Times, No. 40,156, 31 July 2019, p. 8 Anders Modig, ‘Move over, Ai Weiwei – 5 Chinese contemporary artists who are making a splash around the world’, Style Magazine, South China Morning Post, 26 July 2019 Jyni Ong, ‘AIDOL is a computer-generated fantasy world set during the 2065 eSports Olympics’, It’s Nice That, 12 July 2019 Felice Moramarco, ‘The Biggest Other’, NERO, 12 July 2019 ‘Lawrence Lek, Jaeho Hwang & bod [包家巷] Takeover Cafe OTO For A Live Audiovisual Show’, Something Curated, 18 June 2019 Alex Bennet, ‘Reviews: Lawrence Lek. AIDOL’, FLASH ART, No. 326, Vol. 52, June – August 2019, pp. 116-117 Nick Axel, ‘Lawrence Lek: Real Worlds’, e-flux, June 2019 Joel McKim, ‘Into the Universe of Rendered Architectural Images’, unthinking photography, June 2019 Eddy Frankel, ‘Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道, review’, Time Out, 11 May 2019 Lexi Manatakis, ‘What You Need to Know About the Barbican’s Epic Ai Exhibition’, Dazed Digital, 26 April 2019 Alice Bucknell, ‘Augmented Urbanism’, ICON, issue 190, April 2019 Henry Broome, ‘Lawrence Lek – interview: ‘AI could become the ultimate content creation mechanism. It could also signal the death of the author’’, Studio International, 16 May 2019 ‘The Bomb Factory and FVU Present… Dystopian Futures’, FVU, 02 May 2019 Chris McCormack, ‘Lawrence Lek dreams up a hotel for wealthy nomads in his computer-generated dystopia’, Art Basel, May 2019 Michael Eby, ‘Lawrence Lek: AIDOL 爱道’, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2019 Exhibition ‘Aidol’ by Lawrence Lek at Sadie Coles HQ London’, CLOT, 20 April 2019 ‘The Philistine: The Very Best of London Culture This April’, Something Curated, 01 April 2019 ‘Bonus Levels’, British Council Korea,online Blog, 25 March 2019 |
| 2018 |
Iris Lang, ‘A conversation with Lawrence Lek’, Sine Theta Magazine via medium.com, 10 October 2018 Ysabelle Cheung, ‘Lawrence Lek: Architect of Virtuality’, Art Asia Pacific: 25th Anniversary Special, September-October 2018, pp. 76-77 ‘Lawrence Lek: Farsight Corporate Launch’, TANK Magazine, 01 August 2018 Mark Westall, ‘Lawrence Lek Farsight Corporation: The future of “Smart Cities”’, FAD Magazine, 30 July 2018 Gabrielle Schwarz, ‘Dystopia lands in London’s Docklands’, Apollo Magazine, 26 July 2018 Laura Snoad, ‘Lawrence Lek, Hardeep Pandhal and Daria Martin amond Film London Jarman Award Shortlist’, It’s Nice That, 27 June 2018 Dale Berning Sawa, ‘Jarman Award 2018 Shortlist Announced’, The Guardian, 27 June 2018 Stephanie Bailey, ‘Lawrence Lek’, ARTFORUM International, Summer 2018, p. 331 Ana Teixeira Pinto, ‘Alien Nations’, Mousse, Summer 2018, pp. 167–175 Danni Shen, ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young AI’, Hyperallergic, 18 May 2018 Alvin Li, ‘Lawrence Lek: Future 2065’, Mousse Magazine, No. 63, April-May 2018, pp. 204-206 ‘What to do in Hong Kong: 1 – 15 April 2018’, Lifestyle Asia, 01 April 2018 Stephanie Bailey, ‘A Conversation With Lawrence Lek’, Ocula, 23 March 2018 ‘The Lowdown: Shows to see during Hong Kong Art Week’, Post-ism, 23 March 2018 |
| 2017 |
Josh Feola, ‘Yin: Lawrence Lek’s Geomancer OST’, Radii China, 29 December 2017 Francis Blagburn, ‘The Virtual Darkness of Lawrence Lek’s Imagined Future’, Crack Magazine, 18 November 2017 Anya Harrison, ‘All Systems Go: Lawrence Lek’s Geomancer’, Flash Art, September – October 2017 Niamh Leonard-Bedwell, ‘What happens when capitalism decides humans are useless?’, Dazed, 17 July 2017 Henry Broome, ‘The weird + eerie: an interview with Lawrence Lek on crossing the line + exposing the deeply embedded through VR’, AQNB, 13 June 2017 Gary Zhexi Zhang, ‘WHERE NEXT? Imagining the down of the ‘Chinese century’’, Frieze, May 2017 DJ Pangburn, ‘In 2065, a Military Satellite Becomes Self-Aware—and Wants to Become an Artist’, Creators Project, 03 April 2017 |
| 2016 |
Cécile B. Evans, Lawrence Lek, ‘CHECK MARKS’, Mousse, issue 55, October 2016, pp. 84-95 Robert Barry, ‘Delirious New Wick: Lawrence Lek’s Post-Brexit Apocalypse’, The Quietus, 24 July 2016 George Kafka, ‘ScareBnb: Step into Kode9 and Lawrence Lek’s eerie post-human hotel’, Fact, 20 June 2016 ‘A Q&A with… Lawrence Lek, artist and creator of digital environments’, a-n, 05 April 2016 |
| 2015 |
Harry Thorne, ‘In Focus: Lawrence Lek’, frieze, 23 October 2015 Nora N. Kahn, ‘Simulation as Institutional Critique: Lawrence Lek’s ‘Unreal Estate’, Rhizome, 27 August 2015 Thomas McMullan, ‘Digital Dystopias: An Interview with Artist Lawrence Lek’, Alphr, 18 June 2015 Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, ‘Lawrence Lek Wins 2015 Dazed Emerging Artists Award with Site-Specific Video Game’, Artnet, 17 April 2015 |
| 2014 |
Ruth Saxelby, ‘Interview: Lawrence Lek Turns London Into a Video Game’, Fader, 25 April 2014 |