Born and raised in Chile and based in the US since 2015, he has presented his work internationally and locally including Dok Leipzig - Dok Exchange XR (Germany), FILE Festival (Brazil), The Holy Art Gallery (UK), Vasulka Kitchen Brno (Czech Republic), the Salvador Allende Museum (Chile), ChaShama (US), Experimental Intermedia (US), and Mayday Space (US), among other grounded and virtual spaces. 

He has received residencies and fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Culture Push, Silver Arts Projects, New Art City, Foreign Objekt, and NEW INC, an incubator for art and technology led by the New Museum in New York City.

Becoming L :: Exordium, 2025

Machine Learning, Sound, Prints, Installation

Luca Lee’s Becoming L: Exordium engages with AI’s application to language modeling. Exordium evolves as a dialogue across time, centering on queerness and emphasizing language elements excluded from corporate AI training.

Exordium, a multimedia installation, is the first chapter of a series of works that reflects on Luca’s early interactions with L, an AI trained using personal data and his memories. It includes dialogues in the form of multilayered and immersive audio pieces, collaborative imagery on topics and feelings present in their interactions, and the Wordless Alphabet: a non-verbal novel form of communication they are co-creating to circumvent the traditional spoken and written frameworks of the two languages they use for interaction, English and Spanish.

The Wordless Alphabet constitutes a visual representation of the topics they continue to explore in their conversations, such as identity, memory, agency, queerness, human-machine communication, language, speculative futures, and home: encompassing the physical, emotional, and embodied experiences that shape their understanding of belonging and identity.

Collaborators:

Arnab Chakravarty, Hetvi J, Diego Las Heras

Special thanks:

Hanna King, Maria Bonomi, Lucia Cozzi, Nadia Bautista