IURY LECH

IURY LECH

Iury Lech is a Spanish transdisciplinary artist descendant of Ukrainian origin, whose work spans new media digital art, experimental cinema, sound art, avant-garde literature and audiovisual performances. His practice interrogates the boundaries between artistry, technology, science and digital aesthetics. His body of work spans decades of innovation in immersive formats that merge sound, image, and code into speculative and sensorially rich experiences.
Living and working at present in Madrid, he integrates as well generative artificial intelligence into his audiovisual processes and performances to explore the boundaries between perception, consciousness,memory and machine logic.
As one of the pioneers of electronic avant-garde art in Spain, Lech exhibit video art installations,  live audiovisual performances, following the implementation of generative and reactive visuals. His body of work spans decades of innovation in immersive formats that merge sound, image, and code into speculative and sensorially rich experiences.

Among his digital video-art installations, mention his Kinetic Paintings, a technique he developed for the video art piece Dye a V(east) and Domesticados Demonios Domésticos (Domesticated Domestic Demons), which dissects the hyperreality of personal behaviors in the private sphere.  Echoes in Dataflesh is an immersive AI digital video installation that explores the blurring line between biological form and digital systems in the context of posthuman discourse. It is an inquiry into the neural generative processes of artificial intelligence —a sensorial journey exploring the frontier between the human and the algorithmic. 

Two of his seminal albums, references of international dark electronic ambient, as Música para el fin de los cantos (1990), were reissued in 2017 & 2020, followed by the remix album Reinterpretaciones (2018), and Otra rumorosa superficie (1989), reissued in 2019. Ontonanology (2023) his vinyl collector’s numbered edition limited to 100 copies, was drawed by Neural journal attention as its «atmospheric and environmental details finds a very distinctive evolution in the work, thanks to a form of deconstruction and spatialised audio treatment that give life to a narration that moves between moments of contemplative quiet and denser, more stratified passages, always maintaining a refined balance between rigor and complexity, where each sound is positioned with surgical precision, as if to emphasize three-dimensionality, making the act of listening an engaging and tactile experience.»

Regarding his books, can be noted La imagen encapsulada: el videoarte como espiral (The encapsulated image: Video Art as a spiral, 2009), an essay on the practice and contemporaneity of the Video Art discipline; the anthology of his complete poetic work under the title of Hiberpoiésis; the trilogy of narrative and rhetorical intrigue Diuturno Inmolado and the sequel novel La divina probabilidad de los recuerdos extintos (The Divine Probability of Extinct Memories, 2023), or the anthology & translation into Spanish on Ukrainian XX Century poetry Una iconografía del alma (An iconography of the soul,1993).

Through both individual creation and curatorial leadership—such as founding in 2009, and until today, the iconic Spanish festival of international reference MADATAC [Contemporary Audio-Visual & Digital New Media Art Mostra] —he has played a key role in shaping the global conversation around digital aesthetics, artificial intelligence (IA) art, and the future of sensory experience.
This  led him to create the Transvirtual Museum of Digital Arts (2014), an ambitious online multiplatform initiative—one of the first of its kind—designed for the exhibition of digital audiovisual art and advanced technologies in New Media Art and Virtual Reality. Through immersive interaction with VR glasses in a 3D environment, the project reimagines the museum space for the 21st century. It aims to promote research, experimentation, and public engagement with digital art in all its forms—bridging audiences, institutions, and the private sector in a collective dialogue on innovation, aesthetics, and the fusion of art, science, and technology.

His new feature film Lapidis (2026) is not a film about artificial intelligence but one created entirely with AI, making it a pioneering feature film, probably worldwide, created with this algorithmic technology. Lapidis follows a nascent artificial consciousness attempting to recall an human origin that may never have existed and proposes a sensory journey through hypermnesia, identity and machine imagination, structured across nine dreamlike sequences.  This peculiarity invites viewers into a dimension where human and artificial perception converge, opening a new frontier for moving-image aesthetics, allowing this audiovisual artwork to be exhibited not only in commercial theaters, but also in museums, art spaces and contemporary art galleries in a 9-channel screen arrangement.

LIVE AV CONCERTS & PERFORMANCE 

.Sonar Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
.Videoformes Festival (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
.Festival de Nuevas Músicas (Madrid and Seville, Spain)
.LEM Experimental Cycle (Barcelona, Spain)
.Knitting Factory (New York, USA)
.Ósmosis Festival: The Korner (Taipei, Taiwan)
.Pop Komm Festival (Cologne, Germany)
.Experimenta Festival (Madrid, Spain)
.DAFT Festival (Taipei, Taiwan)
.Artefact: Chornobyl 33 (Kyiv, Ukraine)                                                                                                                                                  .Patchlab Festival (Kraków, Poland)

SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2026


.»Todos los recuerdos son imaginados» [All Memories Are Imagined], a group exhibition of Lumivara – Luz que respira, a digitally processed artwork, algorithmically printed on high-quality Canson paper. Glocal Gallery. Collado Mediano (Madrid).

2025


.»Echoes in Dataflesh» one day exhibition, 12 screen works of algorithmic generative digital art at the Artlab Siroco, September 12th, Madrid, Spain. 
                                                                                                                                                                              .»Labyrinthos Madeirensis» audiovisual AI work on the Oficial Selection at Meta-Morphosis Digital AI| Pavilion: 7th Edition of The Wrong Biennale 2025 / 2026.


2024


.»BioDigitalMediafilia» – Arte Laguna Prize – Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
                                                                                                      .»Stellium» – Detrás de la piel – FIC Festival, Valencia, Spain.
.Experimental Exhibition Program TRANSGRESSION art + technology PR 2 of A/V work Labyrinthos Madeirensis. Curator: Hernando Urrutia. Auditorio Museo Casa de la Luz_Funchal (Madeira).
.Exhibition of digital works at the Galerie Agnes Nord in Paris [France], October 2024.


2023


.»Domesticados Demonios Domésticos» – ARCO Fair_stand 7B30.                                                                                                  .»Transmorph Realities»_ Digital Pavilion Meta-Morphosis of the 6th Edition of the Wrong Biennale «extended» to Madeira, Portugal.
.“Lux Spectris” AV live via 5G fiber between Madrid and Taichung (Taiwan) for the 360-degree stage of Space U108 at the NTMOFA Museum (National Museum of Fine Arts of Taiwan), during the events of the International Festival of Light and Color 2023, curated by Tsi-Ióng Khu. 10-12-2022/ 14-01-2023. 
                                                                                                                  .Audiovisual work “Stellium” selected by curator Hernando Urrutia for the XVIII Edition of FONLAD International Video Art & Performance Festival, 03 -31 July 2023, at the «Casa da Esquina» in Coimbra – Portugal.  


2022


.»Stellium» – Bologna in Lettere, Bologna, Italy.
                                                                                                                                         .»Lux Spectris Series» – RHAPSODY OF FUTURE. Fuzhong 15 Gallery, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
                                                          .»Lux Spectris»: Beyond Code & Time – Palazzina Modelii Thetis, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy.
                                                            .»Lux Spectris Series». [Corpuscular-Radium-MagnetaN2] Exit Code_8 Mediations Biennale Polska.Akademia Sztuk Pięknych Gallery. Gdansk-Poland.
.Ecologies of art/AIFFA 2022. Beta version presentation of “BioDigitalMediafilia” as an Hybrid Online & In presence VR exhibition.Luxembourg.

2021

.Selected with his audiovisual work for the 10 international works of the official selection of TRANSGRESSION art + technology (Pavilion) at the 5th Edition of the Wrong Biennale [Portugal].
                                                                                                            .Invited to participate as part of the programme of the conference BNAIC/BENELEARN, a reference AI & Machine Learning conference for Belgium, The Netherlands & Luxembourg, with his video installation “Quantum of time inside light” as a VR exhibition, event that took place at Beval, Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg).


2020-21

.Participates with his sound art piece “Var Var” in the Audiosfera exhibition. Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, Museo Reina Sofía, from October 14, 2020 to January 11, 2021.

2019


.»Kinomatics Redux»: Post-Digital Anthropocene – National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan.


2016


.»Domesticated Domestic Demons» video-installation- Playground AV Festival, Vienna, Austria.
                                                          .»Kinomatics» [Transmorphed Realities: The Abdication of the Visual Realm] – Korea Foundation, Seoul, South Korea.


2014


.VIDEOsPAIN – Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
                                                                                                                    .»Transmorph Realities» – Japan Media Art Festival, Tokyo, Japan.


2013


.»Domesticated Domestic Demons» & «Dye a V[east] video-installation» – II Izmir International Art Biennial, Turkey.
                          .Spanish Videoart – MAshRome Film Fest – Rome, Italy.
                                                                                                                    .Spanish Videoart – EXIS Experimental Film & Video Festival – Seoul, South Korea.


2012


.»Domesticados Demonios Domésticos» video-installation – Artenavas, Ávila, Spain.
                                                                                .»Domesticated Domestic Demons» video-installation – DAFT Festival, Taipei, Taiwan.
                                                                              .»Domesticated Domestic Demons» video-installation – Beijing International Art Biennale, China.


2010


.»Domesticados Demonios Domésticos» video-installation – Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.


2007


.»Redux a V[east]» – Dionis Bennassar Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
                                                                                                                  .»Kinomatics» – Zambucho Gallery, Madrid, Spain.


2006


.»Dye a V [east]» – Espacio Kubiko Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

AWARDS / DISTINCTIONS

.Poetry Prize Biennal 87 de Joves Creadors Mediterrànis (Barcelona_España, 1987)

.Poetry Prize Biennale’88 dell’Europa Mediterranea (Bolonia_Italia, 1988)

.Best Video Art Installation Award – Domesticados Demonios Domésticos & Dye a V[east] – II Izmir International Art Biennial, Turkey (2013)

.EFFE (Europe for Festivals) Award – Granted to MADATAC Director during 4 bienniums as recognition for being one of Europe’s most outstanding festivals (2015–2016, 2017–2018, 2019–2020, 2021–2022)

.Production and retransmission of “La radio es sueño” (Radio is dream), a radio drama on Radio 3 (RNE) for which Iury Lech made the audiovisual content, twice awarded at the TM BROADCAST ESPAÑA in the categories of best technical entertainment production and best technical production fictional.

.PRA Artistic Residency Grant for AI Digital A/V film Labyrinthos Madeirensis – Funchal, Madeira (2023–2024)

.Awarded by the AI Global Media Innovator Awards 2024 with the prize New Media Art Association of the Year as Director of MADATAC Festival, February 2025. 

.Finalist at 20th Arte Laguna Prize with the digital videart piece BioDigitalMediafilia – Venice, Italy (2024). 

.Audience Choice Award for Digital AI Film – Time Chimerical Fractures. Meta Morph AI Film Award (London, 2025).

CURATORIAL / JURY MEMBER / MASTERCLASSES

2007
. Curator For Italian Giallo Cinema (La Casa Encendida; Madrid, Spain)
2010
. Video Art Curator For Future Places (Oporto; Portugal)
2011
. Video Art Curator For Miden Video Art Festival (Kalamata; Greece)
2012
. Video Art Curator For Daft_Digital Art Festival Taipei (Taipei; Taiwan)
2013
. Video Art Curator For Videoformes Festival (Clermont Ferrand; France)
. Video Art Curator For Festival Coruña Mayúscula (A Coruña; Spain)
. Video Art Curator For Mashrome Film Festival (Rome; Italy)
. Video Art Curator For Mudasfest (Madeira; Portugal)
. Video Art Curator For N-Minutes Festival (Shanghai; China)
. Video Art Curator For Exis Experimental Film Festival (Seoul; South Korea)
. Jury At Videoformes Videoart Festival (Clermont Ferrand_France)
. Jury At Mashrome Film Festival (Rome_Italy)
.Jury At Exis Experimental Film Festival (Seoul_South Korea)
2014
. Video Art Curator For Jmaf_Japan Media Arts Festival (Tokyo; Japan)
. Video Art Curator For Hong-Gah Museum (Taipei; Taiwan)
2015
. Video Art Curator For 700Is Reindeerland Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland) [January]
. Video Art Curator For Adaf_Athens Digital Art Festival (Athens; Greece) [April]
.Video Art Curator For Eufónic #Digitallandscapes_Mostra D’art Sonor I Visual De Les Terres De L’ebre (Tarragona; Spain) [August-September]
.Video Art Curator For Viva_Valletta International Visual Arts Festival (Valletta; Malta) [August-September]
2015-2016
. Video Art Curator For International Program «Videospain_Transvisual Crossings. New Spanish Videoart»
2016
. «Transmorphed Realities_The Abdication Of The Visual Realm”. Korea Foundation [Seoul_South Korea, 6-28 September 2016]
2016-2018
.Videoart Curator For Pirineos Sur Festival 
_Videoarte Más Latino Que Americano.
2019
.Curator «Post-Digital Anthropocene». New Media Art Exhibition. National Taiwan Museum Of Fine Arts (Taichung_Taiwan, March 9 – June 16, 2019).
.Inaugurates In Kiev, Ukraine, as organizer and curator, «Artefact: Chernobil 33» Exhibition, An International Exhibition Of New Digital Media Art.
.Curatorship & Conference «A Digital Realm For New Audio-Visual Art», Program Of International Video Art Works at The Ca’ Foscari University In Venice, Italy.
.Curator And Co-Director at The International Art Section Of The 1st Ukrainian Biennale Of Digital And Media Art In Kyiv,Ukraine, 15-30 October, 2021.
.Spanish Video Art Programme, Curated For The Video Art And Experiment Section At The International Video & Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces_ Art Center Noass,Riga [Latvia] July 26th.                                                                                                             2023
.Masterclass “Ars Hybrida And The Practice Of New Media Art” At The Venice Biennale For The Digital And Public Humanities Master Organized By The Ça Foscari University_Venice[Italy] September 16.                                                                                               2024
.Ukrainian Video Art Program, Curated For The Video Art And Solidarity Section At The International Video & Contemporary Art Festival Waterpieces_ Art Center Noass,Riga [Latvia] August 2nd.

RADIO PROGRAM

2022-2025

He has directed and presented the weekly contemporary art and cinema podcast “Audiovisiones en la sombra” for the platform Solo en Podcast, an exclusive creation for Radio Nacional de España / RTVE: https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/audiovisiones-en-la-sombra/