CV

2024

• Algorithmic Photography – Computer Arts Society, BCS, London (2nd April – 31st May)
• Fungi – In Art and Science – Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm (30th September 2023 – 7th January 2024)
• Renaissance 3.0 – ZKM, Germany (25th March 2023 – 4th February 2024) *EXTENDED*

2023

• Collecting Tomorrow – The Amelia Scott, Tunbridge Wells (29th September – 26th November)
• Fungi – In Art and Science – Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm (30th September 2023 – 7th January 2024)
• Computer Arts Society Members Exhibition 2023 – London (10th July – 10th November)
• [Digital] Transmissions – Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts (22nd February – 17th April)
• Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen (24th March – 30th July)
• Renaissance 3.0 – ZKM, Germany (25th March 2023 – 4th February 2024)
• Intelligence Artificielle: Nos Reflets dans la Machine – Le Musée de la Main, Lausanne (Switzerland) (1st April 2022 – 30th April 2023)
• Synthetic Ecology – The Beijing Art and Technology Biennale at CUBE Art Center in the 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China (22nd September 2022 – 31st January 2023)
• Unknown Unknowns, 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition (15th July 2022 – 8th January 2023)

2022

• Synthetic Ecology – The Beijing Art and Technology Biennale at CUBE Art Center in the 798 Art Zone in Beijing, China (22nd September 2022 – 31st January 2023)
• Our Bio-tech Planet – Botanical Garden, Rome (24th – 30th October)
• Gene Cultures – MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA (From 2nd October)
• Darwin’s Paradox: A Decade of Bio Art – SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York City (28th September – 17th October)
• Unknown Unknowns, 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition (15th July 2022 – 8th January 2023)
• Magic Machines at the Technische Sammlungen in Dresden (30th June – 28th August)
• BIOMEDIA at Le Centre Des Arts, Enghien-les-Bains (13th May – 10th July)
• Wunderkammer BioArt – Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Germany (6th April – 24th June)
• Intelligence Artificielle: Nos Reflets dans la Machine at Le Musée de la Main, Lausanne (Switzerland) (1st April 2022 – 30th April 2023)
• The Beauty of Early Life – ZKM, Germany (26th March – 24th July)
• Fermenting Futures – Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna (3rd March – 22nd March)
• BioMedia: The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior – ZKM, Germany (18th December 2021 – 28th August 2022)
• Indo-European Residency 2021 – Online Exhibition (10th December 2021 – 31st January 2022)
• Artificio – Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Marta, Colombia (21st October – 31st January 2022)

2021

• BioMedia: The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior – ZKM, Germany (18th December 2021 – 28th August 2022)
• Indo-European Residency 2021 – Online Exhibition (10th December 2021 – 31st January 2022)
• Artificio – Museo Bolivariano de Arte Contemporáneo, Santa Marta, Colombia (21st October – 31st January 2022)
• Atmospheric Encounters – SOLU, Bioart Society, Helsinki (8th October – 20th November)
• Paradoxical Objects: Video Sculpture Art From 1968 To Today – Peer to Space (from 24th September)
• Under the Viral Shadow – Art Laboratory Berlin (28th August – 10th October)
• Capture the Future(s): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET – Art Science Node, Berlin (from 27th June)
• SUPERNATURAL: In the Same World – Oulu Museum of Art, Finland (29th May – 17th October)
• Atmospheric Encounters – Birmingham Open Media (19th May – 28th August)
• Sapporo International Art Festival – originally in Sapporo, Japan and now online due to COVID-19 (19th December 2020 – 14th February 2021)
• SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Future – KUNSTALLE TÜBINGEN, Germany (10th October 2020 – 7th March 2021)

2020

• Sapporo International Art Festival – originally in Sapporo, Japan and now online due to COVID-19 (19th December 2020 – 14th February 2021)
• EFECT DE LA MICRO LA MACRO as part of Quantum Questions 2020 – Cluj-Napoca, Romainia (24th November – 12th December)
• Alianza Francesa de San Salvador (20th October)
• Touch Me Festival – Ars Electronica Adriatic Garden by Kontejner, HALA V – Nikolai Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
• Quarantine – Ars Electronica Garden Dubrovnik, Zagreb
• SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Future – KUNSTALLE TÜBINGEN, Germany (10th October 2020 – 7th March 2021)
• A World Without Us Revisted – IMPAKT (online)
• Neural Network Apophenia – EVERART Weekend international festival of contemporary art (online), Moscow, Russia (3rd – 5th July)
• Digital Wild, Meta.Morf – The Trondheim International Biennale for Art & Technology, Trondheim, Norway
• STARTS Residency Days – CENTQUATRE, Paris, France (29th February – 1st March)
• SUBMERGE – Science Gallery Bengaluru, India (15th December – 29th March 2020)
• Growing – ZHI ART MUSEUM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (28th September 2019 – 5th January 2020)

2019

• SUBMERGE – Science Gallery Bengaluru, India (15th December – 29th March 2020)
• Oceans 4.0 – FACT, Liverpool, UK (11th – 27th October)
• Tetramatyka festival of audiovisual art – Lviv, Ukraine (4th October – 20th October)
• Growing – ZHI ART MUSEUM, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (28th September 2019 – 5th January 2020)
• Intelligent Machinery – Ugly Duck, London (27th – 29th September)
• CAS50 Phase 2 Exhibition – LCB Depot, Leicester (22nd July – 7th August)
• EVENT TWO – Royal College of Art, London (12th – 17th July)
• Flow Photo – National Waterways Museum, Gloucester (6th June – 13th July)
• Silbersalz Science and Media Festival – Halle, Germany (20th – 23rd June)
• WRO Media Art Biennale – Four Domes Pavilion, Wrocław, Poland (15th May-28th July)
• Time Portals – Furtherfield, London, UK (9th May-20th October 2019)
• Entangled Realities – HeK, Basel, Switzerland (9th May-11th August 2019)
• Flow Photo – National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port (1st April-30th May)
• A World Without Us – IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands (24th November 2018-3rd February 2019)

2018

• A World Without Us – IMPAKT, Utrecht, Netherlands (24th November-3rd February 2019)
• Unstable Reality and Shifting Knowledges: Mending the Fabric of the World (curated by Annick Bureaud) – Bandits Marge, Chateau d’Eau, Bourges, France (16th November-2nd December)
• ArchaeaBot – LABoral, Gijon, Spain (20th September-11th October)
• Ars Electronica – POSTCITY, Linz, Austria (6th-10th September)
• Flow State – The Francis Crick Institute, London (from 13th of July)
• Nothing But Flowers – Łódź Design Festival, Poland (19th-27th May)
• Wright Gallery of the Texas A&M College of Architecture (5th-8th March)
• Northern Ireland Science Festival (22nd February)

2017

• CLINIC //2 – Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London (20th-25th September)
• Our Friends Electric – QUAD Derby (1st July-10th September)
• Imperial Festival – Imperial College London (7th May)
• Yellow Magic (part of British Science Week) – Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (18th March)
• HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY – Science Gallery Dublin (10th February – 21st May)
• Embodied Encounters – The Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine (1st October 2016-21st January)

2016

• Embodied Encounters – The Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine (1st October-21st January 2017)
• Ingenious and Fearless Companions – Victoria & Albert Museum, London (23rd-25th September)
• Human, meet computer – NESTA, London (19th July)
• HCI 2016 – Bournemouth University (13th-15th July)
• The Games Europe Plays – Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London (7th July-26th August)
• Digital Festival 2016 – The Egg, Brussels (21st June)
• NYC Emergence – Kilroy Metal Ceiling, 283 Greene Ave, Brooklyn, New York (30th April – 1st May)
• Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature – Princeton University, New Jersey (30th March)
• Ingenious and Fearless Companions – Birmingham Open Media (BOM) (1st March-11th June)
• No Violence To The Sky – Level 39, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London (11th March – ongoing)
• Solo Exhibition: Shadows of Light – University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (29th February-4th March)

2015

• Modernising Medical Microbiology Conference 2015 – Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford (14th December)
• Sequence VR – Watermans (14th November)
• Sequence – Watermans (3rd-16th November)
• Digital (Dis)connections: Ai Weiwei Late, Royal Academy of Arts, London (24th October)
• Lewes Light Festival (16th-17th October)
• Digital Design Weekend – Victoria & Albert Museum, London (26th-27th September)
• Watermans River Weekender – Watermans, London (18th-20th September)
• Toy Hack Digital Metropolis – Brighton Digital Festival, Phoenix Brighton (18th-19th September)
• Digi-Fears Part 1 – Brighton Digital Festival, Fabrica, Brighton (8th September)
• EVA – London (6th-9th July)
• Ravensbourne College, London (5th June)
• Invisible You – The Eden Project, Cornwall (permanent exhibition from 22nd May)
• On Light – Wellcome Collection (1st-4th May)
• Serre Numérique Inauguration – Valenciennes, France (9th April 2015)
• FutureFest – London (14th-15th March)

2014

• Painting With Light: Video Sculptures – Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (6th-10th December)
• Networked Bodies – Watermans, London (7-9th November)
• Creative Machine – Goldsmiths, London (7-14th November)
• “The Institute of Unnecessary Research meets The Egyptian Bio-art Club” – ISEA 2014 – Dubai (30th October – 6th November)
• Kinetica Art Fair – The Old Truman Brewery, London (16-19th October)
• The Evening Standard “1000” award ceremony – The Francis Crick Institute (16th October)
• Cinekid Festival – Amsterdam (9-18th October)
• Brighton Digital Festival – Fabrica, Brighton (3rd September)
• The Giant Electronic Art Show – The Lightbox, Woking (15th July – 2nd November)

2013

• Bletchley Park (9th-10th November)
• ICT2013 – Vilnius, Lithuania (6th-8th November)
• Intuition and Ingenuity – Hut 12, Bletchley Park (1st-30th November)
• Video Street Art – Caracas, Venezuela (16th October)
• Museum of Contemporary Art – Caracas, Venezuela (27th September)
• My New Robot Companion – Waterman’s Gallery, London (21st September – 23rd October)
• Brighton Digital Festival – Clearleft, Brighton (31st August – 6th September)
• 0P3NR3P0.NET – Furtherfield Gallery, London (8th June – 28th July)
• #HYPERLINK – The South Tank, Tate Modern (26th April)
• Gone Viral at Marion Art Gallery – Rockefeller Arts Center at State University of New York (SUNY) (8th March – 7th April)
• Kinetica Art Fair – London (28th February to 3rd March)

2012

• Alan Turing Sound and Visuals Portrait, My New Robot Companion – Phoenix Square, Leicester (October-November)
• blinc digital festival – Conwy, Wales (27th-28th October)
• Alan Turing Sound and Visuals Portrait – Phoenix Square, Leicester (October)
• London Digital Design Weekend – Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London (22nd-23rd September)
• Robots and Avatars UK selection – Europe House, London (18th-28th September)
• The British Science Festival – Robert Gordon University Library Gallery, Aberdeen
• Intuition and Ingenuity – AISB/IACAP World Congress, Birmingham (2nd-6th July)
• Intuition and Ingenuity – Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield (22nd-24th March)
• Intuition and Ingenuity – Lighthouse, Brighton (17th-26th February)
• Kinetica Art Fair – London (9th-12th February)

2011

• Robotville – Science Museum, London
• Like Shadows: A Celebration of Shyness (curated by Helen Sloan, SCAN) – Phoenix Gallery, Brighton for White Night.
• Digital Design Weekend – Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London
• The Art and Science of Linen – the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
• HUMAN+ – Science Gallery Dublin, Ireland
• Kinetica Art Fair – London

2010

• Canon Expo Europe – Grande Halle de la Villette (12th-14th October)
• Artificial Light Festival – Bournemouth (24th April)
• Solo in Azione – Milan (16th-25th May)
• Monotone Symphony – GV Art Gallery, London (14th January)

2009

• Interactive installation – Selfridges, Oxford Street, London (3rd-24th December)
• Interactive video installations exhibition – The Drawing Room, Portobello Road, London (10th November)
• Video Street Art – digital graffiti around London (18th August)
• Chasing Shadows – audio/video commission (May)
• Animation Decathlon – Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall, London (March)
• Out of White – GV Art Gallery, London (January)

2008

• The Hours of Folly – exhibition with Martin A. Smith at The Drawing Room, Portobello Road, London (December)
• Live AV performance – Digital Media Awards: South, Brighton (November)
• Kaidan – audio/video installation at Holland Park, London (October)

2007

• Haunted Holland Park – audio/visual installation Holland Park, London (October)

Performances

• Serre Numérique Inauguration – Valenciennes, France (9th April 2015)
• “Painting With Light“ as part of Vase Curate – #HYPERLINK – The South Tank, Tate Modern (26th April 2013)

• AI Hokusai ArtTech Research Project
• Quantum Biology Fellowship at the University of Surrey
• Indo-European Residency 2021 – A Kolkata
• CAPABLE: Cancer Patients Better Life Experience (current)
• Fermenting Futures – BOKU, Vienna
• CHIC: Biotechnology From The Blue Flower
• VERTIGO STARTS: Robot/Human Co-mobility – Cyberspecies Proximity
• EMAP/EMARE – ArchaeaBot: a post singularity, post climate change lifeform
• Robot House Residency #2 – University of Hertfordshire
• We Live in a Robot House – University of Hertfordshire

Alex May gives talks about digital art, art/science collaboration, digital preservation, and public engagement with robotics through art.

To keep this list cleanly formatted there is a separate page of videos here.

2024

• Algorithmic Photography – BCS, London (2nd April)

2023

• Royal College of Art with Anna Dumitriu (11th May)

2021

• Creative Comm 21 – National Centre for Creativity enabled by AI (CebAI) (13th September)
• Forum Design Pays De La Meije – round table (2nd July)
• Biotechnology From the Blue Flower: The Unnatural, That Too is Natural – Art Science Node Berlin online panel (30th June)
• Value(s) of NFT-ART: A critical discussion about Cryptoart and NFTs – UCLA Art/Sci online panel (20th May)
• NFTs: Smoke and Mirrors or The Future of Digital Art? – Computer Arts Society (13th April)

2020

• Fermenting Futures (online panel discussion) – TABOO – TRANSGRESSION – TRANSCENDENCE (TTT) in Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna (27th November)
• Algorithmic Photography – Alianza Francesa San Salvador (20th October)
• A Mirror For Remembering – #WeMissiPRES, Digital Preservation Coalition (22nd September)
• Creating and Curating with Data – how do artists make sense of data? – Online webinar (15th September)
• Digital arts practice in the time of the pandemic – University of Brighton (21st July)
• A Mirror For Remembering – Computer Arts Society online talk (7th April)
• Cyberspecies Proximity – Biocomputation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire (3rd April)
• CHIC Presentation – CHIC Consortium (26th March)
• A Mirror For Remembering – Kent and Medway Museum Conference, Historic Dockyard Chatham (24th February)

2019

• Cyberspecies Proximity Vertigo STARTS Residency – Alex gave a talk and was in conversation with his artistic collaborator Anna Dumitriu, and Silvio Napoli (Chairman of Schindler) as part of a panel discussion on “Art, Innovation and Society”, chaired by Nicolas Henchoz (Director of the EPFL-ECAL Lab) at the Schindler City Auditorium in Ebikon, Luzern, Switzerland (2nd December)
• AI, Art & Nature – Berlin Science Week, Berlin (4th November)
• Intelligent Machinery: Algorithms – Ugly Duck, London (28th September)
• (Co)Art workshop “Working with Technology to Co-create Art”
• BioCoderDojo Timisoara, Romania, supported by the European Capital of Culture Timisoara 2021
• “ArchaeaBot: A Post Singularity and Post Climate Change Life-form” at the WRO 2019 Media Art Biennale in Wrocław, Poland, as part of the conference “Human Aspect – Non Human Aspect” to accompany the exhibition of the work at the Four Domes Pavilion in the Biennale (17th May)
• National Institute of Art and Design in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The event was hosted by curator Nasima Dzhuraeva, and Normurod Negmatov director of the Tashkent Art Biennale.
• Artistic Exploration of BioRobotics and Sequencing – SynBio19 Conference, Warwick University (30th January)
• Future Digital Life – Digital Future Life: A World Without Us? conference, IMPAKT, Utrecht (18th January)
  • Alex May (moderator)
  • Ghislaine Boddington
  • John Holder
  • Ine Poppe

2018

• Light, Code + Time – Eden Project, Cornwall (2:30pm 26th May)
• Texas A&M University, Health Sciences HPEB LL30 (6th March)
• Northern Ireland Science Festival: The Art and Science of Linen – PRONI, Belfast (22nd February)

2017

• Technology & Emotions Conference 2017 – Sentralen, Oslo, Norway (7th November)
• MAKE 2017 Symposium: Art + Biology – CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork (4th March)

2016

• Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) – University of Westminster, London (15th November)
• Colloquium – University of Hertfordshire (13th April)
• Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature – Princeton University, New Jersey (31st March)
• International Visiting Artist talk – University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1st March)
• ATLAS Speaker Series – University of Boulder, Colorado (8th February)
• Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) – University of California, Los Angeles, CA (4th February 2016)

2015

• Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics through Art – Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic (28th November)
• BioCon – Seoul, South Korea (6th November)
• Digi-Fears Part 1 – part of Brighton Digital Festival, Fabrica (8th September)
• Curating in the Digital World: Talk with Robert Storr and Alex May – Chelsea College of Arts, London (13th July)
• Where to now The Digital Revolution? – Art That Makes Itself Symposium – Watermans Arts Centre, London (16th May)
  • Maria Chatzichristodoulou
  • Jim Boulton
  • Nico Macdonald
  • Alex May
• Computer Arts Society – Phoenix Leicester (11th March)

2014

• TEDx Bucharest – Bucharest, Romania (22nd December)
• Painting With Light – Nottingham Trent University (14th November)
• The Lightbox – Woking (28th October)
• Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam
• Music Tech Fest – London (5-7 September)
• Public Engagement in Science through Art – Politics, Ethics, Power, and Propaganda – Waag Society, Amsterdam (31st January)

2013

• ICT2013 – Vilnius, Lithuania (6th November)
• Painting With Light – Museum of Contemporary Art. Caracas, Venezuela (26th September)
• Robot House Artist Residency Colloquium – University of Hertfordshire
• My Robot Companion: Living in the Uncanny Valley – GameHorizon 2013 (9th May)
• Video Street Art – State University of New York (SUNY), Freedonia, NY, USA (8th March)

2012

• Computer Arts Society Christmas Lecture – October Gallery, London (12th December)
• Computer Art Pioneers on Making Art by Writing Code – In discussion with Manfred Mohr and on a panel with Roman Verostko, Frieder Nake, and Ernest Edmonds – Site Gallery/Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (17th November)
• Behind Intuition and Ingenuity – Phoenix Square, Leicester (3rd November)
• Guests @ Gray’s – Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (12th October)
• Digital Design Weekend – The London Design Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London (23rd September)
• Painting With Light – Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (12th September)
• The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)/The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) World Congress 2012 – Wolfson Centre, The Medical School, University of Birmingham (3rd July)
• Sinclair and Me – Horizons, British Film Institute (BFI), London (5th May)
• The Hoxton Mix Mixer #7 – Digital Shoreditch, London (29th May)
• Lovebytes Digital Arts Festival – Sheffield (23rd Mar, 2012)
• Code as Art? – Lighthouse, Brighton (25th February, 2012)
• My Robot Companion – Lighthouse, Brighton (21st February, 2012)
• Kinetica Art Fair – London (12th February, 2012)

2011

• Ahmed Shawky Museum – Cairo, Egypt (November)
• My Robot Companion – University of Hertfordshire (November)
• Institute of Unnecessary Research Panel – ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey (September)
• Bio-sensing and Network performance workshop – ISEA, Istanbul, Turkey (September)

2010

• Quadratura: The Art of Video Mapping – Farnham University (February)

2019

• Working with Technology to Co-create Art (Alex May and Anna Dumitriu) – co(art), Timișoara, Romania (11th October)

2018

• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Eastbourne (28th April)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Texas A&M University (7th March)

2017

• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Phoenix, Brighton (25th March)
• Fugio: Interactive Art Made Easy – Phoenix, Brighton (25th February)

2016

• Blockchain Workshop (9th June)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Phoenix, Brighton (12th March)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (4th March)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (10th February)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – University of California, Los Angeles, CA (2nd February)

2015

• Toy Hack Digital Metropolis – Brighton Digital Festival, Phoenix Brighton (18th-19th September)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Phoenix, Brighton (22nd March)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Phoenix, Brighton (7th March)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Bournemouth University (19-20th January)

2014

• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Phoenix, Brighton (29th March)

2013

• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela (26th-27th September)
• Mapping Bacteria Workshop- Fluxmedia, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (8th February)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Carousel, Brighton (11th January)

2012

• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Brighton Digital Festival, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (1st December)
• Painting With Light (video mapping) – Brighton Digital Festival, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton (15th September)

2011

• Biosensing and Networked Performance – ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Turkey (September)

Alex’s work is held in the following permanent collections:

• ArchaeaBot – ZKM, Karlsruhe

• A Mirror For Remembering – Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
• Algorithmic Photography – Computer Arts Society CAS50 Collection
• Super-Organism – Eden Project, Cornwall
• The Art and Science of Linen – Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum

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2024

• Top 20 Most Famous Digital Artists Today – Contemporary Art Issue (18th April)
  • Alex May was ranked as the 19th most famous digital artist from data collected by Artfacts.
  • Cached article: https://alexmayarts.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Top-20-Most-Famous-Digital-Artists-Today-Contemporary-Art-Issue.pdf

2022

• Fermenting Futures exhibition – Die Presse, Austria (16th March)

2020

• Digital New Media – TECHnique Episode 39 (24th March)

2019

• form.de – issue 282 – “Simulation” – text and photograph of Flow State
• ANTENNAE – issue 47 – Spring 2019 – Feature about Algorithmic Photography
• Trebuchet Magazine – issue 6 – “Time and Space” – Interview about Flow State and Algorithmic Photography
• Aesop Agency interview about Algorithmic Photography and my artistic practice

2018

• Report of Ars Electonica Festival 2018 featuring ArchaeaBot – AXIS Web Magazine (Japanese)
• An Artist’s Insight into the Day-to-Day Life at the Francis Crick Institute – LABIOTECH.eu
• ON VIEW: “Flow State” by Alex May at the Francis Crick Institute – SciArt Magazine
• Exhibition: ‘Flow State’ by Alex May at The Crick in London – CLOT Magazine
• Mapped Motion – Latest TV (13th April)

2017

• Will robots put us out of work? by NewsFour.ie on HUMANS NEED NOT APPLY at Science Gallery Dublin.  Features quotes by Alex May and Anna Dumitriu on their Antisocial Swarm Robots installation.
• Shadows of Light in Embodied Encounters exhibition:
  • Exploring the Interconnection of Body and Mind at UC Irvine’s Beall Center by OC Weekly
  • Technology is Part of Life – UCI magazine
    “Technology provides radical new tools for artists to explore and experiment with,” says May. “Technology is a human creation; it’s a mirror reflecting our creativity and inventiveness, and that brings all the trappings of the best and worst aspects of humanity. This is not a new trend, of course. Artists have always explored the rough edges of humanity’s relationship to the universe we inhabit, as well as between ourselves.”

2016

• Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice: Techne/Technique/Technology – edited by Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio, chapter “Mass Collaboration through Software and why we need a ‘Keeper’ Movement” written by Alex May, published by Routledge (8th October)
• My Robot Companion cover story in SciArt in America (June)

2015

• Imperica Magazine (13th October)
• Talking Business – BBC News 24 and BBC Global World News (19th September)
• Brighton Digital Festival – Radio Reverb (25th August)
• 4 Tech – BBC Arabic (26th March)
• Emergency Index: Volume 3 (February)

2014

• Kinetica Art Fair Artist Interview: Alex May – Aesthetica Magazine (19th October)

2017

• VR artwork about CRISPR techonology – Bio-Art Contest, Seoul, South Korea

2015

• Brighton Digital Festival Education Award

2011

• ‘My Robot Companion’ was awarded joint first prize for public understanding of Artificial Intelligence – AISB

2009

• 2012 Inspire Mark for Animation Decathlon – London 2012, London