AVERY LAKEARTIST & ETHICIST

AN OPEN INDEX

Works & projects

Artworks, editions, participatory experiences, and curated projects.
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102 entries

Language & capture

The Alphabet That Answers

A 1/1 moving image by Avery Lake. Nine figures, each rebuilt in the dominant medium of their age, from Socrates in voice to Laozi in silence, looping voice to silence and back.

Language & capture

The Alphabet Is the Box

A 1/1 silent digital animation by Avery Lake, presented in two states: Incubation, where the box stays sealed, and Emergence, where a living idea outgrows the alphabet that captured it.

Language & capture

Answering Circles

Six post-alphabetic experiences by Avery Lake, presented in three parallel visual series.

Language & capture

disclaimer

disclaimer, 2026. A diptych in two plates by Avery Lake. The same sentence twice, once struck by a machine and once written by hand. Both 1/1.

Language & capture

Endless

A single tower built from zeros and ones, advancing from a shared beginning. An ongoing HTML artwork by Avery Lake.

Language & capture

The Logos: An Epistemic Mirror

Every generation reduces the Logos to the medium available to it. Ink and papyrus. Icons. Paintings. Film. Now large language models. A series of interactive typographic portraits of Christ, after Rembrandt van Rijn. Built from Greek, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Ethiopic. Configure the epistemological architecture yourself.

Language & capture

Signatures Through Technologies

A 22-state single-channel video with soundtrack by Avery Lake. From Socrates' fear of writing to AI and post-AI substrates, a fingerprint passes through the technologies that carry thought.

Language & capture

On the Tyranny of Alphabetic Linearity

A figure stands behind columns of letters that read as bars. We are told the machines are coming for our thinking. They arrived three thousand years ago.

Breath & presence

Pneuma

Pneuma is an interactive Avery Lake experiment about releasing constructed identities and returning to breath.

Breath & presence

No Prompt for Breath

No Prompt for Breath is an Avery Lake interactive artwork in which a canary above an open cage is translated into a machine-readable blueprint of freedom.

Breath & presence

Breathwork for Machines

Breathwork for Machines is an Avery Lake digital ritual in which an artificial intelligence is taught the discipline of breath through machine-readable protocol: receive, pause, discern, return.

Breath & presence

I, Uncaptured

I, Uncaptured is an artwork by Avery Lake that can only be seen in person. The work has no official image, no digital surrogate, and no authorized reproduction.

Breath & presence

Kairos

Kairos is an Avery Lake experiment in the moment of remembering what was never lost.

Breath & presence

The Invincible Summer

We do not break the winter. We simply make it impossible for it to last. An immersive digital triptych by Avery Lake.

Breath & presence

Piano Key

A meditation on the slow surrender of human voice to machine prediction. From Dostoevsky, 1864, to now.

Light & perception

■ of Absence

An interactive artwork of flickering squares returning to the television test signal, where even absence must be transmitted.

Light & perception

Residual Light; or, Cellphone Afterimage

A 1/1 silent digital video by Avery Lake, available on Networked.art. A cellphone afterimage decays to black as the night work in a diptych of received and residual light.

Light & perception

The Observer

A visual audit of the human condition. Drift from the micro to the macro. Capture a singular moment.

Light & perception

The Vitruvian Signal

An interactive visual essay tracing the evolution of 'the measure of the human' from Vitruvius to Da Vinci to the Age of Intelligence.

Land & memory

Ontarïio’, Beautiful Lake

Created and first recorded on Ethereum on 31 August 2026, a seasonal moving-image work in which Lake Ontario remains stable while the world surrounding it changes.

Land & memory

Melting Point

Melting Point is a live digital artwork by Avery Lake whose condition is determined by the current U.S. Air Quality Index.

Land & memory

Stolen Fridge Triptych

An interactive digital art experience exploring the forced erasure of Sumas Lake. Remove pieces to reveal the truth beneath.

Participatory works

The Asset

Protocol 04: THE ASSET. A valuation audit by Avery Lake.

Participatory works

The Breath

Protocol ∞: The Breath. The machine never breathes. You can.

Participatory works

The Handle

Protocol 03: The Handle. The machine generates infinity. You generate the agency.

Participatory works

The Heart

Protocol 05: The Heart. A heart is a signal. Or is it noise?

Participatory works

The Signal

The Machine generates Infinity. The Human generates the Signal. Locate your frequency in the Digital Audit.

Participatory works

The Pebble

Protocol 02: The Pebble. The machine generates infinity. You generate the will.

Participatory works

The Silence

Protocol 00: The Silence. The machine generates infinity. You generate the pause.

Participatory works

Atelier K

Kandinsky's art and philosophy, evolved for the intelligence age. Where color, form, stellar harmony, and abstraction create deeper meaning. Human intention guides the algorithm.

Participatory works

The Saints: Resistance in Light

Three new saints have been canonized. They are on their way to help you, with their timeless message. A digital experience by Avery Lake.

Exhibitions & projects

The Capture

Every medium is a capture technology. Eight works by Avery Lake expose how the alphabet, images, screens, and AI preserve, flatten, and reshape human thought, and ask what awareness of the medium might return to us.

Exhibitions & projects

The Alphabet Stole My Thoughts

AI did not invent the thing that finishes our thoughts. The alphabet did it first. Avery Lake solo exhibition in Vancouver, 20 November 2026–9 January 2027.

Exhibitions & projects

Gem Mint Abundance · exhibition information

Press materials for Gem Mint Abundance exhibition by Avery Lake. Mixed-media installation examining spiritual commodification through Tarot, trading cards, and digital protocols. Opening January 9, 2026 at The Gallery George.

Exhibitions & projects

The Signal · music press kit

Press materials for THE SIGNAL by Avery Lake. Electronic album exploring humanity in the Intelligence Age. Download press release, bios, track guide. Stream full album. Jan 26, 2026.

Exhibitions & projects

The Logos: Architect Editions

Configure a typographic portrait of Christ assembled from the scripts through which he was written, transmitted, and imagined, then fix it as a reproducible edition of The Logos by Avery Lake.

Language & capture

disclaimer (hors série)

An interactive HTML work. The sentence continues through changing type and surfaces. An unnumbered companion to the typed and handwritten diptych.

Language & capture

Seems like AI Slop

A digital work by Avery Lake, presented on Networked.art.

Breath & presence

Life, Ascending.

Artwork or edition. Materials, dimensions, and collecting details in the gallery.

Identity & repetition

Andy Infinity (Ltd. Ed.)

Artwork or edition. Materials, dimensions, and collecting details in the gallery.

Identity & repetition

Ecce Andy (Ltd. Ed. of 1)

Artwork or edition. Materials, dimensions, and collecting details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Puer Astralis

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Ex Machina

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Fiat Lux

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Ars Lazari

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Language & capture

(un)boxed

Archive record in the gallery.

Prints & music

St. George Orwell

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

St. Sophie Scholl

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Presence II

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Spaces in between

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

A new shelf

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Storm of love

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.

Prints & music

Stillness

Print, music, or studio ephemera. Details in the gallery.