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Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Non-Places an augmented reality installation of new bodies of work by the Swiss artist Marc Lee. Shown here for the first time are four interactive works, each using a mobile app as an interface and projected on to the walls of the gallery.

The artworks explore how globalization creates “places without a local identity” – as described in Marc Augé’s essay Non-Lieux (1992) – and stimulate a reflective attitude based on a novel “immersive confrontation” with the digital society of our time.

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070

Don’t miss Marc Lee interactive installation on view at AKG through 25 May 2019.

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070

MARC LEE 10.000 Moving Cites – Same but different, AR (Augmented Reality) 2018 Mobile App, AR Multiplayer Game Dimensions variable Edition of 10, 1AP (MLee001.18)

With the augmented reality app 10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different, AR (2018) one moves between the imaginary buildings using an iPad and participates in the real time digital communication streams and social movements by means of inserted social media posts. Buildings can be destroyed and rebuilt by the users. But beware! Everyone sees what the other is doing from a different perspective. The more buildings disappear, the more creatures appear…  10.000 Moving Cities – Same but Different, AR focuses on how places are constantly changing, language diversifying, plant and animal species are diminishing and buildings, shopping malls and cities are becoming more and more similar.  Places are emerging, which could be anywhere in the world, without a real local identity. This process is accelerated by technological progress, faster means of transport and communication, the internet and augmented reality itself.

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Non-Places, a solo exhibition of new works by Marc Lee. 

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

MARC LEE Me, Myself, and I 2018 Mobile App as Interface for an Interactive Installation   Dimensions variable Edition of 10, 1AP (MLee003.18)

Me, Myself and I questions egocentrism and narcissism as widespread contemporary phenomena as manifest through their most popular, infamous declination: the selfie culture. The digital era emphasises how individuals perceive themselves increasingly at the centre of, rather than merely being part of, society.

In Me, Myself and I the participant floats virtually in a self-absorbed ego-relationship with herself above an urban, futurist cityscape that is continuously regenerated. The user sees herself rapidly projected into the virtual environment countless times, as another way to replicate over and over again her ego.  The virtual environment is entirely dominated by her ego as translated by the selfies the tablet takes, that is, by the many images of the user that populate the cityscape.  The virtual environment rotates as the user rotates the device with the sky showing as the tablet is moved upwards, for example.  By tilting it downwards the ground appears.  At the same time, flight direction can be adjusted, as can the flight speed. The sound is responsive and reacts to the movement and flight speed of the user.

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com

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Pictured: Marc Lee ‘Me, Myself and I’ (2018), performed by Daria Blum © Marc Lee, Courtesy the artist and Annka Kultys Gallery.

Marc Lee interactive installation “Non Places” is on view at AKG through 25 May 2019. Marc Lee (born 1969) is a Swiss artist. He is creating network-oriented interactive art projects: interactive installations, media art, internet art, performance art, video art, augmented reality (AR) art, virtual reality (VR) art and mobile apps. He is experimenting with information and communication technologies and within his contemporary art practice, he reflects critically creative, cultural, social, economic and political aspects.Over the past decade, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions that include: ZKM Karlsruhe, New Museum New York, Transmediale Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, HMKV Dortmund, HeK Basel, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Read_Me Festival Moscow, CeC Dehli, MoMA Shanghai, ICC Tokyo, Nam June Paik Art Center, Media Art Biennale and MMCA Seoul.Work by the artist is represented in museum collections, including including the Swiss Confederation Federal Art Collection Bern, HeK Basel, Fotomuseum Winthertur and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070

MARC LEE Nonplace 2018 Mobile App Edition of 10, 1 AP (MLee004.18)

Nonplace (2018) points to the loss of identities through technological progress and globalisation and poses the question of what the ever-growing similarity of cities, shopping centres and commodities means.

Nonplace renders visually and conceptually in virtual reality the concept of ‘Non-places’ which Marc Augé describes in his book and essay of the same name.  According to Augé: “Super modernity produces non-places, meaning spaces which are not themselves anthropological spaces and which do not integrate to earlier places … A world where people are born in the clinic and die in hospital, where transit points and temporary abodes are proliferating under luxurious or inhuman conditions (hotel chains and squats, holiday clubs and refugee camps, …; where a dense network of means of transport which are also inhabited spaces is developing; where the habitué of communicates wordlessly, through gestures, with an abstract, unmediated commerce (i.e., credit card transactions); a world thus surrounded by solitary individuality.”

The exhibition is on view from 26 April - 25 May, 2019 at AKG, London.

ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY

472 Hackney Road | Unit 3, 1st Floor | London E2 9EQ | T +44 20 3302 6070 http://www.annkakultys.com