Geoffrey Lillemon / selected works
BIO
Geoffrey Lillemon brings a classic romantic painting and drawing style to technology to reinterpret artistic practice. As one of the leading artists of the Net Art Movement, Lillemon has consistently foregrounded the interplay between the digital and physical world in his work, blending the traditional mediums with interactive animation that responds to human touch, brainwaves, and even heartbeats.
Using various art forms, from mixed and moving media to literature and soundscapes to classic portraiture, he creates works of hallucinatory poetry that reach into the infinite depths of the subconscious where the real and the imaginary interact. Lillemon has exhibited internationally as Oculart, including being the Invite d'Honneur at the Centre Pompidou, was a founding member of studio Champagne Valentine, and is currently a director and artist residing in Amsterdam.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
"My work explores the coexistence of the digital and physical through this subconscious realm – the space that lies somewhere between the real and the imaginary, the space where they interact.
In taking the traditional mediums, like painting and drawing, and adding various levels of interactivity and animation to them, I create digital pieces of art that showcase how when art and technology engage, they begin to dance. By maintaining a rough edge to the technology, humanity is allowed to filter through and weave stories in the viewer's mind by creating frantic, hallucinatory visuals of digital affection.
Whether Victorian surrealist portraiture or psychedelic projection mapped interiors, it offers hauntingly seductive environments to lure the viewer in, to have unpredictable interactions with it, and to feel immersed in it. This way, the viewer can see how we are constantly in a process of masking, concealing, advancing, and retreating from the space of the real."
- Geoffrey Lillemon, 2013
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CLIENTS INCLUDE
Adidas Originals
Adult Swim
Bernhard Willhelm
Centre Pompidou
Diesel
Edun
Iris Van Herpen
OFFF
Tate Modern
Tim Burton
Versace
VH1
...
SELECTED PRESS
The Creators Project (2013)
Acclaim Magazine (2013)
It's Nice That (2013)
Creative Applications (2013)
Time Magazine (2013)
Trendland (2013)
Acclaim Magazine (2013)
A Magazine Curated By (2013)
The Creators Project (2013)
French Vogue (2013)
Dutch Vogue (2013)
The Creators Project (2013)
WAD Magazine (2013)
Fashionising (2013)
A Magazine Curated By (2013)
SHOWstudio (2013)
Digital Arts (2013)
Page Magazine, January issue (2013)
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The Creators Project (2012)
A Magazine Curated By (2012)
Portable Magazine (2012)
It's Nice That (2012)
Dazed & Confused (2012)
Hint Magazine (2012)
Design Indaba (2012)
Paper Magazine (2012)
The Creators Project (2012)
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For projects & press, please contact:
Valtteri Laihanen
val@geoffreylillemon.com
Geoffrey Lillemon brings a classic romantic painting and drawing style to technology to reinterpret artistic practice. As one of the leading artists of the Net Art Movement, Lillemon has consistently foregrounded the interplay between the digital and physical world in his work, blending the traditional mediums with interactive animation that responds to human touch, brainwaves, and even heartbeats.
Using various art forms, from mixed and moving media to literature and soundscapes to classic portraiture, he creates works of hallucinatory poetry that reach into the infinite depths of the subconscious where the real and the imaginary interact. Lillemon has exhibited internationally as Oculart, including being the Invite d'Honneur at the Centre Pompidou, was a founding member of studio Champagne Valentine, and is currently a director and artist residing in Amsterdam.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
"My work explores the coexistence of the digital and physical through this subconscious realm – the space that lies somewhere between the real and the imaginary, the space where they interact.
In taking the traditional mediums, like painting and drawing, and adding various levels of interactivity and animation to them, I create digital pieces of art that showcase how when art and technology engage, they begin to dance. By maintaining a rough edge to the technology, humanity is allowed to filter through and weave stories in the viewer's mind by creating frantic, hallucinatory visuals of digital affection.
Whether Victorian surrealist portraiture or psychedelic projection mapped interiors, it offers hauntingly seductive environments to lure the viewer in, to have unpredictable interactions with it, and to feel immersed in it. This way, the viewer can see how we are constantly in a process of masking, concealing, advancing, and retreating from the space of the real."
- Geoffrey Lillemon, 2013
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CLIENTS INCLUDE
Adidas Originals
Adult Swim
Bernhard Willhelm
Centre Pompidou
Diesel
Edun
Iris Van Herpen
OFFF
Tate Modern
Tim Burton
Versace
VH1
...
SELECTED PRESS
The Creators Project (2013)
Acclaim Magazine (2013)
It's Nice That (2013)
Creative Applications (2013)
Time Magazine (2013)
Trendland (2013)
Acclaim Magazine (2013)
A Magazine Curated By (2013)
The Creators Project (2013)
French Vogue (2013)
Dutch Vogue (2013)
The Creators Project (2013)
WAD Magazine (2013)
Fashionising (2013)
A Magazine Curated By (2013)
SHOWstudio (2013)
Digital Arts (2013)
Page Magazine, January issue (2013)
_
The Creators Project (2012)
A Magazine Curated By (2012)
Portable Magazine (2012)
It's Nice That (2012)
Dazed & Confused (2012)
Hint Magazine (2012)
Design Indaba (2012)
Paper Magazine (2012)
The Creators Project (2012)
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For projects & press, please contact:
Valtteri Laihanen
val@geoffreylillemon.com
