Hi. My name is Marcel Bückner.

I am a new media artist and creative technologist, working, teaching, and researching at the intersection of installation art, media sculpture, experimental film, and algorithmic performance. By superimposing image, light, sound and code, I explore the blurred boundaries between the physical and the virtual, examining ubiquitous digital infrastructures and algorithmic agency that redefine perception, interaction and experience in today’s networked world. My interests lie in the creation and perception of affective atmospheres, the conception of site- and object-specific narratives, and the aesthetics and autonomy of complex systems.

My work is often based on interdisciplinary collaborations with musicians, writers, performers and scientists. I am co-founder of the collective art studio Xenorama and I’m teaching at the department of communication design at the HTW Berlin.

This website shows only a selection of my work. You can find more collective work at:
www.xenorama.com

Feel free to contact me for collaboration.

Vita

  • since 2014: Co-founder of the artist collective XENORAMA
  • 2021 – 22: Board member of the Institute for Artistic Research at the Film University Babelsberg
  • 2021 – 22: Research assistant at Filmuniversität Babelsberg within the Erasmus + Knowledge Alliance Project FAST45
  • 2016 – 21: MA creative technology, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
  • 2015 – 16: Research assistant at Hochschule Düsseldorf’s Mixed Reality and Visualization Lab (MIREVI)
  • 2014 – 16: Freelance work, Compositing & VFX, Cologne
  • 2010 – 16: BA media engineering, Hochschule Düsseldorf
  • born in Berlin

Lectures & Workshops

  • since 2024: Artistic lecturer at the HTW Berlin in the Communication Design department
  • 2024/04: Workshop „Immersive Projections“, Image Beyond the Screen International Conference, Lille, France
  • 2022 – 2024: Guest lecturer at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg in the department of Creative Technology
  • 2022/08 Workshop „CHAOS/MOSIS“, speculative live action role-play for future thinking in arts education, Summer School & Conference, School of Commons & ZHdK, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2019: Lectureship: “Spatial Projections” Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design
  • 2019/03: Guest lecture: “Interactive Spaces”, School of Design and Communication, Berlin
  • 2017: Lectureship: “Urban Intervention KEHRAUS”, FH Potsdam, Department of Design
  • 2016/11: Keynote Presentation: “Genius Loci, Spatial Cinema and Site-Specific Narration” at The Real of Reality Conference, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Exhibitions & Performances

  • 2024: COLLUMINA IV, Galerie Seippel, Collogne, Germany
  • 2024 Lichtfest Leipzig, Germany
  • 2024: ELEKTRON Festival, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
  • 2023: Genius Loci Festival, Weimar, Germany
  • 2023: COLLUMINA III, Galerie Seippel, Collogne, Germany
  • 2023: Waterlight Festival Brixen, Italy
  • 2022: VideoKunstNacht, Kunstverein Kleinmachnow, Germany
  • 2020: Seasons of Media Arts Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2020: Museum Potsdam, Germany
  • 2020: Luminale – Biennial for light art and urban desing, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2019: Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany
  • 2019: Schlosslichtspiele, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2018: Stendaler Lichttage, Stendal, Germany
  • 2018: Stadt für eine Nacht, Potsdam, Germany
  • 2018: KINDL (Center for contemporary art) as part of 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
  • 2018: UnderTheRadar Festival, Sternstudio, Vienna, Austria
  • 2018: Digital Choc Festival, Goethe Institut, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2017: Japan Media Arts Festival, Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2017: BLICKLICHTER: Xenorama Solo Exhibition, Kunst- und Kulturhaus Rechenzentrum, Potsdam, Germany
  • 2016: Interference – International light art biennial Tunis, Tunisia
  • 2015: GLOBALE, ZKM | Centre for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2014: Genius Loci Festival, Weimar, Germany

Curation

  • 2025: Liminal Fields, Exhibition by students of the Communication Design course at HTW Berlin, StadtWERKSTATT Berlin, Co-Curator
  • 2024: Pace Festival for Art and Music, Rechenzentrum Potsdam, Co-Curator
  • 2022: Pace Festival for Art and Music, Waschhaus Potsdam, Co-Curator

Awards & Achievments

  • 2021: The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Finalist, London, United Kingdom
  • 2021: Nomination for Media Architecture Biennale Award 2020, Amsterdam
  • 2019: Design Prize Brandenburg – Winner Communication Design, Potsdam, Germany
  • 2017: New Face Award, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2016: The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology Finalist, London, United Kingdom
  • 2016: Micromapping and Audience Award, International Mapping Festival Girona, Spain
  • 2015: ZKM Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe – Best of Selection, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2014: Genius Loci Video Mapping Festival – 1st Prize: Ohm Krüger Haus, Weimar, Germany

Contact

Web marcelbueckner.com
Mail contact[at]marcelbueckner.com

Marcel Bückner
Xenorama Studio
Dortustr. 46
14467 Potsdam
Germany