Anna-Luise Lorenz
a[at]annaluiselorenz.com
Anna-Luise Lorenz is a multidisciplinary designer, researcher, and
artist based in Berlin. Her research-based work explores the
corrupting forces of reality which find expression in the anomalies of
empiricism and rationalism: the weird, the absurd, or the enigmatic
processes within biological and technological systems. Through a wide
range of media such as installation, performance, animation and
fictional short stories, Anna explores human and non-human agents as a
pivot for the emergence of new hybrid beings and accidental or
deliberate non-human design practices to recognise possible worlds
which are not there yet.
Her work has been shown internationally, amongst others, at at Meet
Digital Culture Center Milan (IT), Futurium Museum Berlin (GER), the Design Biennial Ljubljana (SLO), HEK (House of Electronic Arts) (CH),
the Venice Biennial of Architecture (IT), and USC Cinematic Arts
(USA).
In 2019 she worked as a researcher as part of the New Normal Think
Tank at Strelka Institute Moscow (RU). Anna is lecturing at several
universities and is an editorial board member of
continent., a journal and experimental publishing collective.
For alter ego activities please visit
www.anaconda.cc
and
@anacondacc
Education
Royal College of Art London (UK)
MA Design Interactions 2016
University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (DE)
Communication Design 2010
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague (CZ)
Typography and Type Design 2008
Teaching / Workshops
WS 2023/24 Lecturer: Immersive Experiences, HTW Dresden (DE)
2023 Workshop: You Can Do it When You Future It, Crespo Foundation,
Frankfurt (DE)
2022 Guest Critic: Folkwang University of the Arts (DE)
2022 Workshop: If you know what I mean?!, commissioned by Digitale
Welten Festival in cooperation with Politik im freien Theater
Festival, Frankfurt (DE)
SS 2022 Lecturer: Relational Artefacts, HTW Dresden (DE)
SS 2022 Lecturer: Screen Gym, Image & Motion, Köln International
School of Design (DE)
SS 2022 Lecturer: States of Motion: Into the Life Stream, Scientific
Seminar, Image & Motion, Köln International School of Design (DE)
2022 Workshop: How To HowTo, Open Educational Ressource commissioned
by Digitale Welten Festival/Node Forum, Frankfurt (DE)
2021 Workshop: Plapperlament, commissioned by Digitale Welten
Festival/Node Forum, Frankfurt (DE)
WS 2020/21 Lecturer: Unboxing Black Boxes, Folkwang University of the
Arts, Essen (DE)
SS 2020 Lecturer: Virtual Food, w/ Prof. Johanna Schmeer, Folkwang
University of the Arts, Essen (DE)
SS 2020 Lecturer: Virtual Food, Scientific Seminar, w/ Prof. Johanna
Schmeer, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen (DE)
2020 (delayed) Workshop/LARP: Control + Z,
Second Nature Lab, NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt (DE)
2019 Workshop: Breaking Bread, w/ Sofia Pia Belenky, bio26 26th
Design Biennial Ljubljana (SI)
2018 Visiting Lecturer: Designing Death, w/ Johanna Schmeer, Royal
College of Art, London (UK)
2018 Workshop: Airology, Retune Festival, w/ Johanna Schmeer, Berlin
(DE)
2018 Workshop: Futurium Museum of the Future, w/ Johanna Schmeer,
Berlin (GER)
2017 Workshop, X=A+B (On Inexistent Objects), International Design
Week, w/ Johanna Schmeer, Augsburg (DE)
2016 Guest Critic: Product Design, Speculative Design Module,
University of the Arts Berlin (DE)
Workshop: Unrealities, Parallel School, Glasgow (UK)
Residencies, Awards & Grants
2024 Artist-in-Residence: Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence w/
continent., "Literary Currencies“ at Cluster of Excellence 2020
"Temporal Communities“, Free University of Berlin (DE)
2023 Artist-in-Residence: Crespo Foundation, Preungesheim /
Frankfurt am Main
2022 Stipend: Stiftung Kunstfonds: Neustart Kultur
2022 Fellowship & Residency: 0xSalon fellow w/ Wassim Alsindi,
S+T+ARTS Repairing The Present, funded by the European Commission,
Art Hub Copenhagen
2020 Short List: Lumen Prize 3D/Interactive Art
2019 Residency: The New Normal, Strelka Institute
2014 Residency: The Future of Labour, Swiss Pavilion, Venice
Biennale of Architecture (IT)
2013 Bursary: Royal College of Art London (UK)
2013 Commission: Urban Explorers Media Art Festival (NL)
2010 Award: Output Award Winner
2010 Award: Award of the Federal State of Suabia
Cultural Activities
2023 Participant: Autonomous Worlds, Game Hackathon, at the
invitation of 0xparc Foundation and Trust, Silent Green Berlin (DE)
2021 (ongoing) Member:
continent., an artistic and media oriented philosophy, cultural and
technology journal and experimental publishing collective
2021–22 Research: Non-linear Timelines,
The Whole Life Academy, HKW Berlin (DE)
2021–22 Research: Computing Clouds, w/ Adam Harvey, commissioned by
the University of Edinburgh / The New Real Observatory
2021 Research:
Calculating Control
w/ Zentrum für Netzkunst
2020 (ongoing) Member: Scientific Committee,
xCoAx, Int. Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
2019 Participant:
New Alphabet School, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
2016–2020 Participant & occasional organiser: panke.gallery reading
group
2013 Participant: Parallel School
Publication / Writing / Press
2022 Publication / Essay: Track Your Ass Away: About Unstable Media – Broken Thoughts, Fragmented Hearts and Ghosting People, in conversation with Prof. Nina Juric (KISD), In: States Of Motion – The Motion Experience Lab
2022 Press: The Immaculate Misconception, in: Lorenza Pignati, Arte e scienca, kit per la sopravvivenza, Il Messaggero, 19 Oct 2022
2022 Feature: TongueTongue, in: The Book of X. 10 Years of Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Miguel Carvalhais, André Rangel, Luísa Ribas (eds.), i2ADS: Research Institute in Art, Design and Politics, 2022
2021 Writing: Sealed with a Kiss, w/ Sofia Belenky, published in:
The Pluralist Magazine
2020 Writing: Sealed with a Kiss, w/ Sofia Pia Belenky, published
on:
O Fluxo
2020 Feature: Of Earth and Sky, In: The New Normal, Edited by
Benjamin H. Bratton, Nicolay Boyadjiev and Nick Axel, Park Books
2019 Feature: Of Earth and Sky, in: The Terraforming, Benjamin H. Bratton, Strelka Press, 2019
2019 Publication Contribution: Superficial Intelligence, edited by
Brendan Howell, Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin (DE)
2018 Press: ‘Shush Tones’ in
neural.it
Exhibitions, Talks & Events (selection)
2024 Artistic Intervention: Topical Topoi: A Raw Material Picnic, w/
continent., as part of the annual conference of the "Temporal
Communities“ Cluster of Excellence (Free University Berlin),
Literarisches Colloqium Berlin (DE)
2024 Artist 2024 Performance: The Immaculate Misconception,
panke.gallery, Berlin (DE)
2023 Performance / Night Walk: You Are (Nearly) Here, Public night
walk as part of the FlieKü residency, Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt
(DE)
2023 Online Exhibition (ongoing): The Immaculate Misconception,
exhibited at
There Is No Perfect Spell,
curated by Bi Xin, organised by Chronus Art Center Shanghai (CHN) &
HEK (Haus der Elektronischen Künste), Basel (CH)
2022 Performance / Contribution: Where is the Planetary? w/
continent., Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
2022 Exhibition: The Immaculate Misconception, exhibited at :REWORLD
| Repairing the Present concluding 0xSalon's S+T+ARTS fellowship and
residency at Art Hub Copenhagen, curated by Manuel Cirauqui, MEET
Digital Culture Center, Milan (IT)
2022 Exhibition: Dashboards for Posthuman Life, Future Forecast
Festival, w/ Jaya Klara Brekke & Vlad Afanasiev, Radialsystem,
Berlin (DE)
2021 Artwork: openAR, commissioned by panke.gallery Berlin (DE)
2021: Talk: Hybrid Practices, Braunschweig University of Art (HBK)
(DE)
2020 Panel Talk: ‘World(re)building: How Ecotopias and
Counter-Narratives Can Model Better Futures’, NODE Forum for Digital
Arts, Frankfurt (DE)
2020 App/Exhibition: Fit-Art Connected in isolation, In-App Show, w/
Sebastian Schmieg, Roehrs & Boetsch (CH)
2020 Exhibition: Speed reading at König Digital, w/ Sebastian
Schmieg
2020 Exhibition: The 5th Element, Raum Vollreinigung, Berlin (DE)
2019–2022 Exhibition: The Inside Outside, w/ Johanna Schmeer & Sam
Conran, Futurium Museum Berlin (DE)
2019 Talk: Superficial Intelligence, edited by Brendan Howell,
Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin (DE)
2019 Exhibition: Breaking Bread, w/ Sofia Pia Belenky, bio26 26th
Design Biennial Ljubljana (SI)
2019 Public Presentation/Talk: Of Earth and Sky, Strelka Institute,
Moscow (RU)
2018 Exhibition: 50-m London, London (UK)
2018 Screening: What is Germany, FLUCA Austrian Cultural Pavilion,
curated by Jos Diegel, Plovdiv (BGR)
2018 Exhibition: Total Immersion, State of the Art Berlin, Berlin
(GER)
2018 Exhibition: ALT+FCTS on VRenice Beach, Retune Festival, Berlin
(GER)
2018 Exhibition; Speedreading, w/ Sebastian Schmieg, Galerie b,
Stuttgart (GER)
2017-18 Exhibition: The Wrong Digital Art Biennial, Scripting the
Other Pavilion, curated by Noemata
2017 Exhibition: Panke Gallery Edition, w/ Ingmar Spiller and Claire
Tolan, panke.gallery, Berlin (GER)
2016 Screening: Crosstalk International Video Art Festival, Budapest
(HU)
2016 Exhibition: Final Show, Royal College of Art (UK)
2016 Exhibition: Medialexicon: Faux Friends, w/ Jelena Viskovic,
Telep Gallery, Budapest (HU)
2016 Exhibition: Interim Show, Royal College of Art (UK)
2015 Screening: Jaw Versus Eye Attack, Jan van Eyck Alumni
Association, Vierte Welt, Berlin (GER)
2015 Exhibition: two hundred acres, Pump House Gallery, London (UK)
2014 Exhibition: Science of Fiction, USC Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles
(USA)
2014 Exhibition/Curating: Buy, buy, buy, put it down, London Design
Festival, London (UK)
2014 Exhibition: Out of Stasis as part of ‘Justifiable Versions of
Events/Catastrophe’; Platform for Art, Theory and Research; Jan van
Eyck Alumni Association, Acud Gallery, Berlin (GER)
2014 Exhibition: The Economics of Uncertainty School of Tomorrow
Archive, Swiss Pavilion Venice Biennale of Architecture (IT)
2013 Exhibition: Aus alt wird anders, Die Metzgerei, Augsburg (GER)
2011 Exhibition: Localize Media Arts Festival, Potsdam (GER)
2010 Exhibition: Emergeandsee Media Arts Festival, Berlin (GER)
2010 Exhibition: lab30 Media Arts Festival, Augsburg (GER)
2008 Exhibition: 13+1 Horror, Galerie Divadla na Prádle, Prague (CZ)