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The same sentence meets a machine that will not settle. An unnumbered companion to the typed and handwritten diptych.
View the two-panel diptychSWISS-CANADIAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
In search of
the human signal.
Art about the tools that shape us.
And the presence they cannot fully carry.
NEW WORK · SEPTEMBER 2026
Endless
One tower. One shared beginning.
No final image.
An ongoing HTML artwork. Each visit opens onto a construction advancing from the same moment in time.
Enter the work1/1 · View on Networked.artA SELECTION FROM THE PRACTICE
Recent works
Ontarïio’, Beautiful Lake
The lake holds its form. Everything around it changes. The image and its public inscription are materials of the work.
View provenance · not offered for saleUnderwater
The alphabetic bars become an environment the body has learned to inhabit. A companion to On the Tyranny of Alphabetic Linearity.
View on Networked.artStone & Silicon
A stone core becomes an AI processor. Nine seconds hold a long history of tools becoming part of us.
Explore The Engineered FieldFOLLOW A THREAD
Different forms.
A continuing question.
01 / LANGUAGE
What carries thought?
The alphabet, the image, and the medium that now answers back.
The Capture02 / PRESENCEWhat remains embodied?
Breath, masks, and an encounter that cannot be reduced to a file.
The Gift of Breath03 / LANDWhat holds through change?
A lake, a field, and an atmosphere that changes the work itself.
Land & memoryUPCOMING · LUNA ARTS
The Saints:
Resistance in Light
Sophie Scholl, George Orwell, and Charlie Chaplin appear as figures of light. Three lives return as reminders of clarity, courage, and resistance in the present.
- Where
- LUNA Arts · Revelstoke, British Columbia
- When
- Saturday, 26 September 2026
FORTHCOMING SOLO EXHIBITION
The Alphabet
Stole My Thoughts
L’alphabet, voleur de pensées
Three works on the tools that enter the mind, and what remains beyond their capture.
- Where
- Centre culturel francophone de Vancouver
- Exhibition
- 20 November 2026 – 9 January 2027
- Opening
- 19 November 2026
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
THE AI ART MAGAZINE
Published essay · 2026Before AI, the Alphabet
Published essay · 2026
Before AI, the Alphabet
Stole My Thoughts
Avery Lake on language as a medium that shapes thought, and on the embodied experience it cannot fully carry.
Read the essayABOUT THE PRACTICE
The medium changes.
The human signal remains.
Avery Lake is a Swiss-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and ethicist working across sculpture, installation, moving image, and participatory forms. A background in bioethics and AI ethics grounds a practice concerned with how our tools shape memory, language, identity, and attention.
The work returns to breath, presence, and lived experience: what a medium can point toward but cannot fully contain.
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