Eric Lee, aka easterner, is an interdisciplinary audiovisual artist/musician from London/Hong Kong, currently based in New York, who explores the cyborg condition: what does it mean to live in interconnected human-machine communities in a precarious world? He experiments with–and glitches–old and new technologies, ubiquitous to obsolete, to explore their poetic potential, as well as to critique their role in society.

He is a member of the livecode.nyc art collective, organises and performs audiovisual shows, and curates exhibitions and workshops.

EASTERNER // ERIC LEE

May 19, 2024 - Beautiful Machines #11 - livecode audiovisual performance at Public Records, NYC

LIVECODE AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCES

June 8, 2024 - livecode audiovisual performance at Theater Mitu, NYC, sharing stage with PixelTongue (Charlotte Mundy and Christian Quiñones)

June 5, 2024 - livecode audiovisual performance at ZeroSpace, NYC, sharing stage with Kevin Peter He and Jake Oleson

May 19, 2024 - livecode audiovisual performance at Public Records, NYC, sharing stage with Colloboh, alsoknownasrox, and Tommy Value

September 2, 2023 - Tea Leaf Reading for Cyborgian Futures” as part of Public Visuals &FRIENDS, at LUME, NYC

September 23, 2023 - Jitr extended gong ensemble - joined as collaborative livecode audiovisual performer as part of Elekhlekha’s extended gong ensemble project/performance at CultureHub, NYC

June 10, 2023 - algorave audiovisual performance with avclub sf, at Gray Area, San Francisco, CA

May 27, 2023 - “human.machine.interface: vox machina” - director and livecoder of this performance piece, with orca generating music shown as scrolling score sight read by vocalists wearing VR headsets, at Persona NYC

May 5, 2023 - “Tea Leaf Reading for Cyborgian Futures” at Persona NYC in Dumbo, BK - livecoding audiovisual performance set with cup of tea, webcam, microphone, laptops, analogue video glitch gear, and rescanned CRT TV, as part of evening of two performances, along with Elliot Cole

April 16, 2023 - cofunction, live generative visuals for live improvised electronic music

April 12, 2023 - skulptor x easterner audiovisual set at soundobsessed, as part of Refraction Festival at nft.nyc 

April 8, 2023 - “human machine interface: string theory” - director and livecoder of this performance piece, with orca generating music shown as scrolling score sight read by string quartet, at Club Code at Persona NYC

January 2023 - “Voyager” - audiovisual performance with d0n.xyz as part of Parallel Play at Persona NYC in Dumbo, BK

December 2022 - NOISEMAS - individual orca and pure data audiovisual set, and visualist for other musicians, as part of a 12-hour sound marathon at Iklectik in London, UK

November 2022 - “What do neural networks dream of?” - visualist on LED wall in partnership with Dog Collar on music, at livecode.nyc show “Pixel Worship” at ZeroSpace

October 2022 - “Tea Leaf Reading for Cyborgian Futures” - livecoding audiovisual performance set with cup of tea, webcam, microphone, laptops, analogue video glitch gear, and rescanned CRT TV at Neon Genesis Kybernetes at Visaural NYC

July 2022 - algotrek - livecoding performance with Gameboy and Korg Monotribe, for livecode.nyc mountain show, at outside locations along a hiking trail in upstate NY

June 2022 - “Tea Leaf Reading for Cyborgian Futures” - livecoding audiovisual performance set at Aleatoric Audio for Infinite Islands, as part of Lee Tusman’s residency at Flux Factory on Governor’s Island

April 2022 - “Flash Crash” - livecoding audiovisual performance set as part of the Lines community, to be livestreamed on Twitch

March 2022 - “Algorave Turns 10” - livecoding performance as part of global algorave and livecode.nyc community events and educational workshops on livecoding, at Brooklyn Publlc Library, Brooklyn, NY

December 2021 - “The Longest Night” solstice livecoding festival, livestreamed on Euler Room on YouTube and Twitch - livecoding performance set, titled “cyborg imagination”

October 2021 - Group performance, “Computer Pop!”, livecode.nyc collective, Wonderville, Brooklyn, NYC, and live streamed on Twitch - livecoding performance set, titled “this is who we are / this is not who we are”

May 2023 - “human.machine.interface: vox machina”, Persona, NYC

October 2022 - “tea leaf reading for
cyborgian futures“, Visaural, NYC

October 2021 - “COMPUTER POP!”
Wonderville, NYC

July 2022 - “algotrek“

November 2022 - “what do neural
networks dream of?“, ZeroSpace, NYC

CURATING AND ORGANISING LIVECODE SHOWS, AND EVENTS

April 2023 - “CRTICAL MASS” livecode.nyc show, Wonderville, NYC

ART INSTALLATIONS, KINETIC SCULPTURES & OTHER PROJECTS

“Proof of Work” (2024) - electronic kinetic sculpture by Eric Lee and Niles Fromm, shown at  “My ____ Is An Ecosystem”, Apr 26-May 5, 2024, livecode.nyc x Harvestworks exhibition on Governors Island, NYC

“Disco Physarum” (2021) - audiovisual work exhibited by New Media Art x Neo Shibuya TV’s 30 Seconds Museum, playing on 85 screens in Miyashita Park, Tokyo, Japan, October 18-24, 2021

“Naranja” (2021) - pen plotter art, generated by P5.js

“Long Lost Twins” (2020) - interactive installation by Eric Lee and Yen Mooi, shown at “Digital Twin” group exhibition, February 2020, Data Through Design, Soho, NYC