Alice Bucknell - Staring at the Sun - print Alice Bucknell

Alice Bucknell is a North American artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and forms of knowledge. Bucknell is generally interested in the limits of scientific knowledge and systems thinking, the weird possibilities of play, and the ecological dimensions of games that can dissolve binaries like humans vs environment, natural vs synthetic intelligence, and self vs world.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Nightcrawlers at the Centre Pompidou, Soft Robots at Copenhagen Contemporary, Quantum Visions at Tabakalera, Staring at the Sun at EPFL Pavilions, Almost Unreal / the MUNCH Oslo Tiennial, Other Intelligences at HEK, the Solar Biennial at MUDAC, and their first museum solo show at Kunsthalle Prague. Previous shows and collaborations include presentations with Serpentine, the Venice Biennale, Medialab Matadero, Frieze × Getty PST, and the LA Public Library.

In 2025, they are a Creative Capital Awardee, a Year 11 Member of NEW INC, and a resident at Art Explora × Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2024, they completed the Collide residency at CERN / Copenhagen Contemporary. They are currently faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, where they teach courses on worlding, video games, and philosophies of technology.