Alex May: Digital Artist

Exhibitions

2024

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

2021

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

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