CONFERENCES, LECTURES, TALKS
This selected chronology traces the public articulation of LAb[au]’s practice through conferences, lectures and talks across museums, universities, research institutes and festivals. Beyond presenting completed works, these engagements constitute a distinct discursive dimension of the studio’s practice, situating its evolving research within philosophical and art-historical contexts and extending it towards questions of language, systems, uncertainty and contemporary society.
LAb[au] continues this line of inquiry through lectures and conversations addressing representability, systems of meaning and the limits of perception
2026–1997
SENSE - NON-SENSE
UNCERTAINTY
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
2026 : Art & Architecture between Sense and Non-Sense
conference, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
2023 : Konkrete Kunst, heute
panel discussion with T. Rhode, L. Heese, M. Mäntele and LAb[au]
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
2021 : yes, no: perhaps, artificial intelligence in the work of LAb[au]
artist talk, Industries Magnifiques, Strasbourg, France
2021 : MetaDesign, méthodologie et Art
lecture, Hager, Strasbourg, France
2021 : LAb[au], Recent Projects
guest lecture, ESAD TALM, Angers, France
ART AS LANGUAGE
DIGITAL ABSTRACTIONS
PROGRAMMING TIME
SYSTEMS ART
URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
2016 : Digitale Abstraktionen
lecture, HEK, Basel, Switzerland
2015 : LAb[au], Art as Language
lecture, ACT Center, Asia Culture Institute (ACI), Gwangju, South Korea
2015 : LAb[au], System Art
lecture, Incubator, New Museum, New York, USA
2014 : The Architecture of Light
conference, Circle of Light Festival, Moscow, Russia
2013 : Urban Lights Ruhr
keynote lecture, Arkaden Bergkamen, Bergkamen, Germany
2013 : MetaDeSIGN, Systems Art
guest lecture, Strelka Institute, Moscow, Russia
2012 : MetaDeSIGN
artist talk, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
2011 : System Art
conference presentation, KIKK Festival, Namur, Belgium
2011 : MetaDeSIGN, Systems Art
conference presentation, Resonate, Belgrade, Serbia
2011 : MetaDeSIGN, Systems Art
conference presentation, The Creators Project
La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
2011 : Designing a Seemingly Infinite Range of Possibilities
conference presentation, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 : A New Kind of Art
lecture, Integrated Week, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 : Into the Niche
conference presentation, West Arch Conference
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
2010 : MetaDeSIGN
conference presentation, TEDxBrussels, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2010 : MetaDeSIGN
conference presentation, Technarte, Bilbao, Spain
2010 : Urban Screens and Media Facades
conference, Media Facades Festival Europe 2010, transmediale.10
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
METADESIGN
ARCHITE(X)TURES
DATASCAPES
HYPERTE(X)TURES
2008 : Best Before / Use By ...?
panel discussion, PACKED, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 : MetaDeSIGN
conference presentation, Media Architecture Conference, London, UK
2006 : eMotive Architecture
guest lecture, Hyperbody Research Group, TU Delft, The Netherlands
2006 : Design en Mouvement
conference presentation, Elektra Festival, Montréal, Canada
2004 : MetaDeSIGN
guest lecture, KASK School of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2004 : SonicSpaces, Arquitectura Artificial
conference presentation, Sónar Festival, Barcelona, Spain
2003 : MetaDeSIGN
keynote lecture with Lev Manovich, COSIGN 2003
University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK
2003 : Architecture and Computer Games: Visions and Utopias
conference presentation, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 : MetaDeSIGN, Architectures
guest lecture, School of Architecture, Leuven, Belgium
2002 : eSPACE CONSTRUCTionS
guest lecture, Zurich University of Art and Design (HGKZ)
Zurich, Switzerland
2002 : MetaDeSIGN
conference, International Bauhaus Colloquium
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany
2002 : Building e.spaces
conference presentation, Cybersonica Symposium, ICA, London, UK
2001 : MetaDeSIGN, From Analogy to Programmatic Language
guest lecture, École d’architecture de Lyon, Lyon, France
2001 : Textualités & Nouvelles Technologies
conference presentation, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Montréal, Canada
2001 : Building e.spaces
conference, CAST01, Living in Mixed Realities, Sankt Augustin, Germany
2001 : Mnemonic Interfaces
lecture, Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines
Valenciennes, France
2000 : Territorialités / Textualités
conference presentation, Festival Intérférences, Belfort, France
2000 : MetaDeSIGN
round table, ISEA & Numer00, Forum des Images, Paris, France
2000 : Cyberespace et Cognition
lecture, Sorbonne, Paris, France
2000 : Hypertextu(r)al Environments
conference presentation, Rencontres Internationales de Lurs, France
2000 : Recent Projects
lecture, Rencontres Moebius, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1999 : Lightscape(s), Displacement Maps
lecture, ISACF La Cambre, School of Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1997 : Euralille Revisited
round table with Rem Koolhaas and Jean Nouvel
Espace Croisé, Lille, France