Lukas Truniger is a visual artist, electronic musician and creative technologist, working with generative media in the broadest sense. He creates singular experiences challenging the modalities of perception, taking advantage of the mimetic nature of technology and revealing the materiality of our digital societies. His work pinpoints at unseen connections of natural, cultural and artificial system, further blurring their supposed division. He explores latent realities through emergent choreographies and systemic narratives, which can take the form of multimedia installations, speculative infrastructures, and audiovisual performances.
Born in Zürich (CH), he lives and works in Paris. He obtained a music degree from the Robert Schumann conservatory, Institute of Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf (D) and a post gradual diploma in fine arts from Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing (F).
His work has been shown internationally since 2016 in institutions such as the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón), HeK – House of electronic Arts (Basel), West Kowloon Cultural District (Hong Kong), V2_ (Rotterdam), Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Pearl Art Museum (Shanghai), Fondation Vasarely (Aix-en-Provence), Harvestworks (New York City), Arsenal (Montreal) and La Villette (Paris) as well as at various events and festivals:
Nuit Blanche (Paris), Criatech (Aveiro), MMMAD Festival (Madrid), Athens Digital Arts Festival, Blooming Festival (Pergola), Light Art Grindelwald, Ars Electronica (Linz), City Sonic (Louvain-la-Neuve), Mapping Festival (Geneva), Mirage Festival (Lyon), Burning Man (Nevada), Retune Festival (Berlin), Lethargy Festival (Zürich), Dark Circuits Festival at Knockdown Center (New York City), Variation Media Art Fair (Paris), Die Digitale (Düsseldorf), Sonica (Glasgow), International Digital Arts Biennial / BIAN (Montreal), International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) (Paris and Hong Kong), Festival 100% (Paris), Marrakech Biennale and E-Fest (Tunis).
He was awarded with the Lumen Price 2024 (London), shortlisted for the Prix Cube 2016 (Paris) and has won the RUNWAY price in 2015 by Bipolar, a production and distribution agency for digital art located in Montpellier.
His projects received support from:
– EMAP (European Media Art Platform)
– DRAC Haut-de-France – Ministère de la Culture, Lille
– Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Zürich
– Région Haut-de-France, Amiens
– Dispositif pour la Création Artistique Multimédia et Numérique (DICRéAM) – CNC, Paris
– Burning Man – Black Rock City Honoraria, San Francisco