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Alice Bucknell
Alice Bucknell is an 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 is interested in the ecological dimensions of play as an embodied technology that dissolves binaries between human and nonhuman; natural and synthetic intelligence; and self vs world. They have exhibited internationally, including at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthalle Praha (Prague), Ars Electronica (Linz), Transmediale (Berlin), Arcade Seoul, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Singapore Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries (London). 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. A recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital Award and former CERN/CC resident, they teach world-building, game design, and the philosophies of technology at SCI-Arc and UCLA (Los Angeles).
“Design—across all its scales, formats, and outputs—is a generative act, inviting us to sense the world differently and to be shaped by it in turn. The World Around offers a touchpoint for this transformative practice, igniting a global conversation that extends far beyond the parameters of each program.”
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