Biography
Luci is an artist and writer based in the U.K. She is a Lecturer in Fine Art at Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton) where she coordinates the Fine Art Printmaking studio and leads interdisciplinary education and research projects that engage critically with representational practices across the arts and sciences. Luci is co-director of Robot Futures, a research group exploring the practices and implications of robotic seeing and sensing and is the Arts Editor for the Journal of Cultural Politics.
Education
2017: PhD, Critical & Historical Studies, Royal College of Art
2013: MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art
2011: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Loughborough University
Conference papers and talks
2024: "Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping" poster presentation, AI Arts Festival, Theatre Royal, Winchester.
2024: Book launch of Robotic Vision and Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping, Dana Studio, Science Museum, London.
2021: “Invisible Visions and Landscapes Reconstructed”, Artist talk for Test Print, Royal College of Art, London.
2021: Artist talk for Fine Art department, University of Northampton.
2018: Artist talk for Spaceport, European Space Agency & Norwegian Space Centre, Stavanger, Norway.
2017: "Martian Panoramas", poster presentation at the Art & Science Conference on Empirical Methods, University of Vienna, Austria.
2017: “Immersive Encounters with Unknown Lands: A Pre-history of Virtual Reality”, lecture to Visual Culture students at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
2017: “Stepping into the Image of Mars”, lecture to Visual Culture students at Syracuse University, London.
2017: Artist talk at Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester.
2017: Panel chair for Robot Futures: Vision and Touch in Robotics, Science Museum, London.
2017: “At the Centre of the Image: Terrain Models and Rover Driving”, paper presentation at Remote Control – Scales of Mediated Intervention, Humboldt University, Berlin.
2016: “Panoramic Visions: Mars as Image”, paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on the Image, John Moore’s University, Liverpool.
2016: “Panoramas: Historic examples of VR”, lecture to Visual Culture students at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
2016: Artist talk for Framed Expanse, Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester.
2015: “A Glimpse of Mars through Fractured Illusion: The Materiality of the Stereo-Image”, paper presented to scientists at NASA Ames Research Centre, California.
2015: “A Glimpse of Mars through Fractured Illusion: The Materiality of the Stereo-Image”, paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on the Image, University of California, Berkeley.
2015: “Glimpsing Mars through 3D images”, paper presented at Unseen symposium, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
2015: “Glimpsing Mars through 3D images”, paper at presented at Material Environments: Sensing Time and Matter in Digital & Visual Culture conference, University of Greenwich.
2014: “Collapsing the Frame and Stepping into the Image of Mars”, paper presented at the London Alternative Photography Collective’s September meeting.
Publications
2024: Co-editor of Robotic Vision & Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping. Edinburgh University Press.
2024: "Sweeping Away the Dust: Mars as Reconstructed Image", in Robotic Vision & Virtual Interfacings: Seeing, Sensing, Shaping. Edinburgh University Press.
2022: “A View From the Other Side”, Shared Drive, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
2018: “Walking on Mars: An Immersive Encounter through the Screen”, essay for Image – Action – Space. Situating the Screen in Visual Practice, edited by Luisa Feiersinger, Kathrin Friedrich and Moritz Queisner (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018).
2017: “Void”, poem for exhibition catalogue for Laboratory of Dark Matters at Guest Projects and Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum.
2016: “Stepping into the Image of Mars”, Prova III, Royal College of Art.
2015: “Curiosity’s New Home”, exhibition catalogue for You Belong to Me, Kaunas Gallery, Lithuania.
2015: Book review of Giuliana Bruno’s Surface, Journal of Visual Culture.
2015: “Curiosity’s New Home”, Journal for Visual Arts Practice, Taylor & Francis Online, Routledge, 23 February 2015.
2014: “A Glimpse of Mars through Fractured Illusion”, Prova II, Royal College of Art.
Residencies/Projects
April-June 2025 and ongoing: Project lead for Loops of Perception, an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Web Science Institute and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton.
December 2018: Workshop participant for Lessons from the Eco-City: A Manifesto for Governing Life on Mars. Convened by Robert Cowley, Department of Geography, Kings College London.
October 2018 - March 2019: Planetary Processing, Peer Forum, The Photographer's Gallery.
April 2017: Laboratory of Dark Matters, part of a group of artists in residence at Guest Projects, London, making work in response to the search for dark matter at the underground laboratory in Boulby, Yorkshire.
July 2017: Co-convener of Robot Futures: Vision and Touch in Robotics, conference held at the Science Museum, London.
March 2015: Co-curator of film and artist video programme at MK Gallery for exhibition How to Construct a Time Machine.
March 2015: Convener of symposia on Speculation as part of the Humanities Research Forum, Royal College of Art.
Selected exhibitions
2025: Loops of Perception, AI Arts Festival, University of Southampton.
2023: WASTEWORK, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
2020: How the Land Lies, Sirius Art Centre, Co. Cork, Ireland.
May 2018: Spaceport, European Space Agency & Norwegian Space Centre, Stavanger, Norway (solo).
2018: Unfolding Landscape, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, The Netherlands.
2017: The Art of Planetary Science, Division for Planetary Science Conference, Provo, Utah.
2017: Mission on Mars, Maidstone International Arts Festival, Maidstone.
2017: Laboratory of Dark Matters, Guest Projects, London & CIMM, Cleveland.
2016: Framed Expanse, Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester.
2016: Aether, Imperial College, London.
2015: 50 x 50 – Jealous Needs You Portfolio 2015, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2014: On New Grounds, part of Liverpool Biennial, The Bluecoat, Liverpool.
2014: AstroLAB, APT Gallery, London.
2013: Alter//Shift//Control, Bermondsey Project, London.
2013: Multiplied, Christies, London.
2013: Digital Futures, Design Week at the V&A, London.
2013: Parallax, CGP, London
2013: Secret Postcard, Royal College of Art, London.
2013: Notes to Self, Royal College of Art, London.
2012: PHOTO & PRINT, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London.
2012: Midlands Print, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donnington.
2012: New Prints, International Print Centre, New York.
2012: I Took the Lift to the Sixth Floor, CGP, London.
2011: Photo-media, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London.
2011: SNW//BLND, Vyner St Gallery, London.
2011: Five Quarters, Acquire Arts, London.
2010 CRASH, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London.
Collections
British Museum Print Archive
Royal College of Art Print Archive
Royal Bank of Canada
European Space Agency
NASA Ames Research Centre
Winchester School of Art Special Collection of Artist Books
Winchester School of Art Print Archive