Lucas Evers

Curator

Curator of the exhibition ‘process as paradigm’.

Lucas Evers was born in 1968 in the Netherlands. He currently directs the e-Culture programme at the Waag Society in Amsterdam, where he is involved in projects that bring together art, science, design and the social, expanding the ‘e’ in e-Culture to a wide range of technology-based arts and the representation, meaning and effects of these artistic manifestations in society. Her work includes curating, organising debates and dialogues, teaching and design, all in search of approaches and structures that shape our everyday/technological existence.
Between 1998 and 2003 he worked at De Balie, centre for culture and politics in the editorial team for new media, politics and film, an occupation he combined between 2001 and 2007 with curator of new media at Melkweg. As curator of new media he has been involved in a number of international projects in Amsterdam, among them Re:Mark:Marker – a retrospective of Chris Marker’s work (1999); net. congestion – International Streaming Media Festival (2000); Next Five Minutes (2003); An Archaeology of Imaginary Media (2003); The Upgrade Amsterdam (2004 – 2005); 5 Days Off (2004 – in progress); Creative Commons Netherlands (2006 – in progress); Utopian Practices (2008 – in progress); and Studiolab (2010 – an ongoing collaboration with The Arts & Genomic Centre, Leiden University).