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Alice Bucknell

Biography

Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Their recent work has focused on creating cinematic universes within game worlds, exploring the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for under­stand­ing complex systems, relations and forms of knowledge.

Their work has appeared inter­na­tion­al­ly at Ars Electronica with trans­me­di­ale, LUMINEX in Los Angeles, LEV in Madrid, Serpentine in London, the 18th Venice Archi­tec­ture Biennale, Gray Area in San Francisco, and the Singapore Art Museum, among others. Their writing appears in pub­li­ca­tions including ArtReview, e‑flux archi­tec­ture, frieze, Flash Art, the Harvard Design Magazine, and Mousse.

In 2025, they are a Creative Capital Awardee, a Year 11 Member of NEW INC, and a resident at Art Explora x Cité inter­na­tionale des arts in Paris. In 2024, they completed the Collide residency at CERN/​Copenhagen Con­tem­po­rary. Bucknell received a MA in Con­tem­po­rary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Anthro­pol­o­gy from the University of Chicago. They are currently faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, where they teach courses on worlding, video games, and philoso­phies of technology.