Will Luers

Statement

As a digital artist, I work with the screen's pixel grid—a system that responds to commands, mistakes, and gestures, blending structure with spontaneous expression. I explore this interface through simultaneous compositional practices: cinema, visual and sound collage, writing, computation and generative AI. My goal is for these surfaces to provoke and startle in their abstraction yet remain familiar as reflections of our media-saturated moment.

Building on that, I pursue a “fractured cinema” of montaged layers, fragmented sequences, and networks of stories that challenge traditional notions of time and space. Digital composition becomes an intuitive, playful dialogue between my intentions and the computer’s capacity to disrupt them. Most source material comes from daily life, but in post-production—editing, mark-up, programming, collaging—I push past familiar representation to open a temporal and spatial field that is multiple and generative.

Bio

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 has been exhibited in Istanbul (Noise Fair), Groningen (Noordlicht), and Bergen (CDN), and 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.

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Publishing & Consulting

I offer consulting and contract-based services in web publishing, generative design, digital storytelling, and AI-enhanced media workflows.

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