THE HUMAN SIGNAL IN THE INTELLIGENCE AGE
AVERY LAKE
Swiss-Canadian Conceptual Artist & Ethicist
PhD Zurich | Postdoc Calgary | Visiting Scholar Oxford
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SELECTED WORKS / 2026
THE CAPTURE
Six works from a larger body exposing how media preserve, translate, and reshape the human, from the alphabet to AI.
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01 / PHYSICAL CONCEPTUAL WORK
I, UNCAPTURED; OR, THE LAST ANALOG IMAGE
An artwork with no photograph, file, or scan. The image exists only in person and refuses to become data.
02 / TWO-CHANNEL MOVING IMAGE
FIRST LIGHT / RESIDUAL LIGHT
From morning's first exposure to night's final afterimage, the phone does not merely capture the world. It captures the eye.
03 / SINGLE-CHANNEL MOVING IMAGE
SIGNATURES THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES
A single fingerprint passes through every medium that has captured the human, from orality and writing to computation, AI, and what comes after. The whole thesis in one loop.
04 / TYPOGRAPHIC PRINT
THE ALPHABET STOLE MY THOUGHTS
The sentence fades as it is read until only the dependence on the alphabet remains.
05 / HAND-DRAWN MACHINE-READABLE FIELD
I, HUMAN
A functional QR code redrawn mark by mark by hand. The black box becomes a mirror.
06 / GENERATIVE MOVING IMAGE
WHEN THE ALPHABET BECOMES STRANGE: SOCRATES
Socrates left no written work of his own. He reaches us through the alphabet he mistrusted, rebuilt here through binary and Greek letters.
CORRESPONDENCE
No noise. Just quiet updates when something meaningful is ready.
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