HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)
Libby Heaney: Quantensuppe
23 March 2024 - 26 May 2024
HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)
Today: 12.00 PM - 6.00 PM
05 September 2019 - 10 November 2019
With Farsight Freeport, HeK presents the first big solo exhibition in Switzerland of Lawrence Lek. With his immersive, virtual worlds and electronic soundtracks, the London-based artist has developed an independent and unique visual language. Lek has created a very special scenario for the exhibition at HeK. Visitors are invited to enter a Gesamtkunstwerk that leads into the year 2065. It is a time in which artificial intelligence (AI) dominates and controls all areas of social, industrial and economic life.
The real architectural environment is imitated in the virtual worlds created by the artist. In this utopian scenario, in which HeK has been converted into a bonded warehouse, we encounter the artist's works again and immerse ourselves in his video installations, computer games and VR installations. Lek is deeply concerned with the interplay of politics, technology, and cultural production; his narratives reflect profoundly on the future of our society, for example on the automation of work through AI and its universal use in all sectors of our society.
HEK (Haus der elektronischen Künste)
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Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein / Basel
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Institution
HEK (House of electronic Arts) is the national competence centre that deals with art forms that address and reflect upon new media and technologies. With its focus on interdisciplinary practices, it enables insights for a broad public into art productions of various genres between art, media, and technology. With its exciting programme that features exhibitions, small festival formats, performances and concerts, HEK engages with current social issues and technological aesthetic developments. Alongside its function as an event- and exhibition venue, HEK is involved in the methods of collecting and preserving digital arts.
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