The L.A. Experience Advisory Board

Alice Bucknell - Ms. Bucknell is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and educator with a particular interest in game engines and speculative fiction. Their recent work has focused on creating cinematic universes within game worlds, exploring the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relations and forms of knowledge. They are the organizer of New Mystics, a digital platform merging magic and technology. 

Their work has appeared internationally at Ars Electronica with transmediale, Arcade Seoul, the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale, Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, Gray Area in San Francisco, Basement Roma in Rome, Singapore Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth, Texas, Fiber Festival in the Netherlands, and Serpentine in London, among others. Their writing appears in publications including ArtReview, e-flux architecture, frieze, the Harvard Design Magazine, and others.

In 2024, they are a part of the Synthetic Minds prototyping lab at Medialab-Matadero in Madrid (Jan—Feb), the More-Than-Planet Residency & Algorithmic Ideation Assembly (ARIA) Summer School in Ljubljana (Aug), the Enter the Hyperscientific residency program at EPFL in Lausanne (Sept—Oct), and the Collide residency at CERN/Copenhagen Contemporary (Nov—Dec).

Bucknell received a MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. They are a prior resident of Somerset House Studios in London and currently on faculty at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.