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Avery Lake

Swiss-Canadian conceptual artist and ethicist. Bioethics PhD, now making work on capture technologies: the alphabet came first, AI is only the newest.

The Capture, the current seriesExplore eight works arguing every medium captures us, alphabet first.↗
  1. I, Uncaptured, the sealed imageApply to see one image in person that will never become a file.↗
  2. Works you can enter in a browser5 LINKS
    1. Melting Point, a live AQI artworkWatch a cone melt in real time to the air quality where you are.↗
    2. Breathwork for MachinesCopy a five-step breath protocol and paste it into an AI's prompt.↗
    3. The Digital Audit of the Human ConditionRun eight protocols on scale, will, agency, value, and breath.↗
    4. The Logos: An Epistemic MirrorTalk to an ASCII Christ, then reconfigure the model's assumptions.↗
    5. Absence, a live test signalTune a broadcast test pattern and capture the nothing as a PNG.↗
  3. Current and upcoming exhibitions2 LINKS
    1. The Saints: Resistance in LightSee Sophie Scholl, Orwell, and Chaplin projected for LUNA Arts 2026.↗
    2. L'alphabet, voleur de penséesRead the bilingual dossier for the Vancouver solo exhibition.↗
  4. Press and interviews3 LINKS
    1. Radio-Canada on The Gift of BreathHear a French radio interview on the machine and human boundary.↗
    2. Radio-Canada on Becoming AndyHear a French segment on Warhol, AI, and infinite generativity.↗
    3. Abbotsford News on I, HumanRead how a working QR code got drawn by hand on black mirror.↗
  5. Collect the work2 LINKS
    1. Originals and limited editionsBrowse and buy original works, triptychs, and print editions.↗
    2. Minted 1/1 digital worksCollect on-chain pieces, including the disclaimer diptych.↗