As a digital artist, I work with the pixel grid — a system that responds to commands, mistakes, and gestures, blending structure with spontaneous expression. I explore this pixel interface through a variety of often simultaneous compositional practices: cinema, visual and sound collage, writing and programming. I want surfaces to provoke and startle in their abstraction and yet seem familiar as source material from our current moment of media saturation.
My work explores a fractured cinema, through montaged layers, fragmented sequences, and networks of stories that challenge traditional notions of time and space. I approach digital composition as an intuitive, playful dialogue between my intentions and the computer’s capacity to disrupt them. Most of my material is captured and remixed from daily life, but it is in post-production (editing, mark-up, programming, collaging) that I try to push beyond familiar representational forms to open up a temporal and spatial sense that is multiple and generative.
Will Luers is a digital artist, writer, and educator specializing in AI cinema, recombinant storytelling, and computational arts. His internationally recognized work has been featured at festivals such as the Electronic Literature Organization, FILE (Brazil), and ISEA. In 2018, his collaborative generative project, novelling, won the Robert Coover Award for Electronic Literature.
One of his recent projects, Posthuman Cinema, a generative AI collaboration with Mark Amerika and Chad Mossholder, is represented by the Kate Vass Galerie (K011). In 2024,the work will have been exhibited in Istanbul (Noise Fair), Groningen (Noordlicht), and Bergen (CDN), and it was selected for the 2024 International Digital Biennial in Montreal.
Luers holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University and has over 20 years of experience teaching cinema history, theory, and practice. His research focuses on evolving forms of web-based video and digital cinema. In 2005, he was awarded Best Screenplay at the Nantucket Film Festival, and in 2010, he received a fellowship at the Vectors-NEH Summer Institute for his database video documentary, The Father Divine Project.
Currently, Luers teaches digital cinema, generative AI, web development, and multimodal publishing in the Creative Media & Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver. He is the founder of The Digital Review, an international journal for digital art and literature. In 2024, he edited The Digital Review's issue on AI creativity, continuing his commitment to exploring the intersections of art, technology, and narrative.
w l u e r s @ g m a i l . com
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