Luke Shannon: links
Selected records, interviews, criticism, and institutional sources situate Luke Shannon’s generative practice from The Opera onward.
In the AB[500]: Art Blocks
The official collection page records 256 unique artworks and a May 1, 2021 release.
The Opera ↗Interviews
Shannon discusses The Opera, the viewer’s role, live minting, and movement between digital and physical media.
Bridging Digital and Physical Art ↗Shannon reflects on Lightbreak, materiality, art history, DIY culture, and generative art as performance.
Luke Shannon: Lightbreak ↗Press and criticism
Sofia Garcia and Maya Man examine Replacement Character and the plotter-scanner’s relation to surveillance, intimacy, and contingency.
Replacement Character ↗Museums and institutions
Princeton’s Lewis Center documents Lightbreak in the Thomas Edison Film Festival’s 2024 touring program.
Lightbreak screening ↗Bright Moments records Shannon’s October 2022 residency and the live presentation of Orchids in Venice Beach.
Artist in Residence ↗Galleries and exhibitions
Heft Gallery presents Replacement Character as an investigation of selfhood and surveillance through a custom life-size scanner.
Replacement Character ↗The exhibition release details Replacement Character’s New York run, forty unique life-size prints, and subsequent Paris Photo presentation.
Replacement Character release ↗ARTXCODE explains how Seating Arrangements converts generative blueprints into prints and freestanding wooden chairs.
Seating Arrangements ↗Profiles and archives
Raster aggregates Luke Shannon's tokenized works across platforms.
Raster ↗Kanbas summarizes Shannon’s code-based and material practice, including his use of plotters, embroidery machines, clay, and scanning.
Luke Shannon ↗Bright Moments’ artist directory preserves Shannon’s statement on syntactical code, chance, and the viewing act.
Luke Shannon artist entry ↗Catalogues
The Anifilm 2024 catalogue lists Lightbreak as a United States production directed, designed, and scored by Shannon.
Anifilm catalogue ↗