About
Gumi Lu
Gumi Lu is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on the intersection of technology, mythology, art, and culture. She is inspired by ancient cultural memory devices, which compress multiple elements—history, culture, and ecology—into physical entities, functioning like crystals that can store information and be read. Gumi aims to capture and store plural futures in human memory through her creations, drawing on Descartes’ concept of “intuitio.”
Gumi Lu’s career began with a focus on genetic music as a programmer. Later in her artistic journey, she explored interactive technology, bioelectric signals, and quantum randomness to create encapsulated, “non-present” worlds. She endows other beings or pseudo-beings with human emotions and attentiveness, generating feelings of vulnerability, loss, alienation, ambiguity, and regret. These works reflect an embrace between humans and their non-existent counterparts, symbolizing a state of dependence on solitude. Gumi intertwines natural phenomena with psychological frameworks, constructing a narrative about how life might be measured within future survival mechanisms. Her art invites the audience to question what it means to live in a world where biological life and digital entities coexist, posing existential questions about the future of consciousness.
Exhibitions
2024.11 | The 7th International Industrial Design Expo of China, Wuhan, China
2024.10 | Cave of the Day, Cave of the Night Trio Exhibition, Brooklyn Art Cave, New York, US
2024.10 | Form 2024, CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2024.06 | Un-defined Sensibilities, Sasse Museum of Art, California, US
2024.02 | Rotor, The Le Carrousel du Louvre Contemporary Art Exhibition, Paris, France
2024.01 | About Me, Psychological Art Exhibition, Guangzhou, China
2023.05 | Entropy, Parsons Graduate Exhibition, New York, US
2018.08 | Flux, New Media Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Awards
2021.06 | Honorable Mention, Art of Neuroscience Competition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Netherlands
Talks / Conversations / Interview
2024.09 | Digital Interview, Al-Tiba9, Online
2024.06 | CYE x Gumi: The embrace between humans and intangible beings, Mingyuan Museum, Online
2024.01 | “Deciphering the Creative Minds of Artists with Classic Jungian Function Model,” JILELE, Guangzhou, China
2022.11 | In Conversation: Self Evolution from Guihan Lu's Series, Self Theater, UAAD, Online
2019.01 | “Where the sun's rays do not intrude, a soft illumination prevails,” LAC Architecture Design Share, Shanghai, China
2018.08 | Evolution, Flux New Media Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Press
2024.11 | Featured Artist, Homiens, Online
2024.09 | Featured Artist, Al-Tiba9 Art Magazine ISSUE16, Algeria
2024.06 | Rotor, Tate ETC Summer ISSUE, UK
2024.06 | Rotor, Flash Art, Italy
2024.05 | Rotor, Numéro Art, France
2023.05 | “Peeping at the Universe Bathing: The Consilience of Tao and Modern Physics”, Entropy Publication, The New School, New York, US
2020.09 | “Heed my Command”, Poetry Collection, Beijing, China
Academic Research
2022 | Multimodal Bodily Interaction between Humans and Digital Plants
2021 | The Application of PIFuHD in the Field of Digital Art
2020 | Practical Spirituality Worship: Exploring Design Methodologies in the Contrast Between Government-Crafted and Grassroots Cultures, 2020
2020 | Gates of Numbers: Applying Theosophical Addition to the Human Design System
2016 | The Block-to-Block Method for Converting Genomic Sequences into Diverse Musical Compositions
2015 | CryptoVision: An Interactive Tool for One Time Pad Encryption and Visualization