Alice Bucknell

Alice Bucknell is an artist, writer and educator based in Los Angeles. Their work explores the affective dimensions of video games as interfaces for understanding complex systems, relationships, and knowledge. Bucknell is generally interested in the ecological dimensions of play as an embodied technology that dissolves binaries between human and nonhuman, natural and synthetic intelligence, and self vs world.

Recent projects include two cooperative games: Nightcrawlers (2025) and Small Void (2025). In 2026, they debuted Earth Engine, a single-player game using real-time climate data and geospatial doubles of the Earth to allow the planet to become the main player. Bucknell is currently developing OVERWORLD, a new multiplayer game.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Canyon, Centre Pompidou, ZKM + OGR, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Biennale Gherdëina, the V&A Museum, the Oslo Triennial, the Counterpublic Triennial, the Venice Architecture Biennale and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art. Their work is held in the permanent collections of SFMOMA, the V&A, KADIST, MUDAC and Kunsthalle Praha.

A 2025 Creative Capital Award recipient, Onassis ONX Fellow (2026—2027) and inaugural Serpentine Future Art Ecosystems R&D Fellow (2026—2027), Bucknell is currently a Visiting Professor at UC Davis and faculty at SCI-Arc and UCLA.