Artist
UK
Alex May is a British new media artist utilising a wide range of digital technologies, including virtual reality, photogrammetry, algorithmic photography, robotic artworks, video projection mapping, interactive installations, generative works, performance, and video and sound art.
His international exhibition profile includes the Tate Modern, Ars Electronica (Austria), Francis Crick Institute (permanent collection), Eden Project (permanent collection), LABoral (Spain), the Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Art, Wellcome Collection, Science Museum, Bletchley Park, One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Caracas (Venezuela), the Science Gallery in Dublin, Princeton University, University of Calgary (international visiting artist 2016), Texas A&M University, and the Beall Center for Art + Technology, University of California, Irvine.
He is a Visiting Research Fellow: Artist in Residence with the School of Computer Science of University of Hertfordshire and has given talks about his work at venues including UCLA, USC, School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York, University of Boulder, SUNY, TEDx Bucharest, Chelsea College of Art (in conversation with curator Robert Storr), Waag Society in Amsterdam, BFI London, and the Ahmed Shawky Museum in Cairo.
