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 at the materiality of our digital societies. His work pinpoints at unseen connections of artificial, natural and cultural systems, 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).
He was awarded with the Lumen Price 2024 (London) and his work has been shown internationally since 2016 in institutions such as the 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: Nuit Blanche (Paris), MMMAD Festival (Madrid), Athens Digital Arts Festival, Ars Electronica (Linz), Mapping Festival (Geneva), Burning Man (Nevada), Sonica (Glasgow), International Digital Arts Biennial / BIAN (Montreal) and International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) (Paris and Hong Kong).
Bruce Yoder is a senior research scientist at the ETH Zürich in the field of physical chemistry. His focus on the spectroscopy of aerosol particles and fundamental studies of light-matter interactions to bring a deeper understanding of our world. He is involved in multiple projects with the aerosol and nanoparticle group at the ETH Zürich, as well as collaborations at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers around Europe.
Born and raised in the midwest of the USA, Bruce first moved to Switzerland for his doctoral studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He then went to the University of British Columbia in Canada for a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Fonds National Suisse.
Since 2018, he has collaborated on the art project ‘ethereal fleeting’ with the goal of generating moments of reflection and provoking thoughts through the reproduction of delicate balances found in nature by synthetic means. With special interest in the transitor
