10.10.2025 lecture
Alice Bucknell – Persistant Worlds
Alice Bucknell is a North American artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge.Bucknell’s work has been exhibited widely, including recent and upcoming exhibitions with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Copenhagen Contemporary, the Oslo Munch Triennial, HEK, EPFL Pavilions, MUDAC, and their first museum solo show at Kunsthalle Prague. Previous shows and collaborations include presentations with Serpentine, the Venice Biennale, Medialab Matadero, Frieze x Getty PST, and the LA Public Library. In 2025 their video game The Alluvials was acquired by SFMOMA in San Francisco, making it the first video game to enter the museum’s permanent collection. In 2026, Bucknell will present new commissions at Biennale Gherdëina 10 in Val Gardena, Italy, and Counterpublic, a triennial in St. Louis, USA, and will take part in the La Becque Principal Residency Program. They are currently faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, where they teach courses on worlding, video games, and philosophies of technology.
photo credits:
Potrait – Alica Bucknell – CentrePompidou and Chanel 2025
Staring at the Sun – Alice Bucknell – 2 channel 4k video – 2024 – 2025
Staring at the Sun – Alice Bucknell – 2 channel 4k video – 2024 – 2025
Nightcrawlers – Alice Bucknell – video game – 2025
Small Void – Alice Bucknell – video game – 2025
Staring at the Sun – Alice Bucknell – 2 channel 4k video – 2024 – 2025
https://alicebucknell.com/