CV
b. 1992 in Rochester, NY
2022 - Seminar Tobias Kruse, Ostkreuzschule for Photography, Berlin, Germany
2018 - MSc Archaeology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2014 - BA Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Positions
2023 - onwards: Lecturer/PhD Candidate @ Film University Konrad Wolf
2020 - 2022: Research Associate @ Film University Konrad Wolf (VR Design/Development)
2019 - 2021: Research Associate @ HafenCity University Hamburg (3D Geovisualisation)
2018 - 2019: Cartographer @ University of Hamburg
Awards / Residencies
2023
Shortlisted for Deloitte Photo Grant 2023
CODE, Impakt Center for Media Culture, Utrecht, Netherlands
Artist-in-Residence at Moskosel Creative Lab, Moskosel, Sweden
2021
Working Grant from the Gwärtler Foundation (together with curator Adela Demetja)
Shortlisted for 212 Istanbul International Photography Prize
Beyond Matter Artist-in-Residence, Tirana Art Lab, Tirana, Albania
2020
Speculative Playrooms, Kara Agora (Online)
Installations / Exhibitions
2024
Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece, 10 - 15 May 2024 (Memory Architecture)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 11 - 14 April 2024 (Tirana Time Capsules)
Wrong Biennale TV (Online), 1 November 2023 - 1 March 2024 (Signal/Noise)
2023
IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2 November 2023 - 7 January 2024 (Ansible)
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France, 30 October - 5 November 2023 (Tirana Time Capsules)
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 06 - 10 September 2023 (Ansible)
Lumturi Blloshmi: From Scratch, National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo, 1 September - 15 October 2023 (Lumturi Blloshmi: A Personal Geography)
Collab: Co-op, See-Zeen #9 (https://see-zeen.com/collabco-op)
Experimental Film and Video 2023, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Incheon, South Korea, 12 - 30 July 2023 (The Death Loop)
Contextualise, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, 16 - 18 June, 2023 (Vanishing Points)
Schwellen, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 16 - 19 March (Vanishing Points)
2022
Future of Cities, Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea, 2 August - 22 October (Tirana Time Capsules)
59. Venice Biennale (Albanian Pavilion), Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 23 April - 27 November (Lumturi Blloshmi. A Personal Geography)
See-Zeen #3 (alexander walmsley and michal semczyszyn / a visual dialoge - see-zeen)
2021
See-Zeen #2 (alexander walmsley - see-zeen)
VRHam! Online Programme, VRHam!, Hamburg, Germany (Online), 5 May - 5 July 2021 (Alpine Architecture)
Alternative Networks, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK (Online), August 2021 (An Earth-Like Planet)
Vantage Point Sharjah 9, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE, 18 September - 18 December (Another Facade)
Tirana Time Capsule #2, Beyond Matter, ZKM, Germany (Online), 1 September - Onwards
Beyond Matter Artists-In-Residence 2020-2021, Bulevard Art & Media Institute, 4 - 20 November
2020
Stade 1620 VR, Schwedenspeicher Museum, Stade, Germany, scheduled end of 2020 (VR Installation)
Sensory Scapes, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, 25-26 October 2020 (Alpine Architecture)
Speculative Playrooms, Kara Agora, online, 10-30 November 2020 (Geovore)
2019
Immersive Showroom, Stage/Set/Scenery, Berlin, Germany
Talks / Workshops
2022
The Image and Imagining of the City, Biennale of Arts and Sciences Colloquium, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea, 4 August 2022
The Tirana Time Capsules: 3D Realism and Heritage Imagination, Levels of Life Conference, London College of Communication, London, UK, 30 June 2022
Teaching on MA Creative Technologies at the Film University Konrad Wolf, Babelsberg
2021
Montage of Attractions, ZIP-Scene, Budapest, 30 September 2021
Audio-Visual works with Photogrammetry & Field Recordings, Tirana Art Lab, Tirana, Albania, 7-10 June 2021
Teaching on MA Creative Technologies at the Film University Konrad Wolf, Babelsberg
2020
Virtual Environments, University of the Arts London, UK, 10 June 2020
2019
Stade 1620, LC3D, Strasbourg, France, 2 December 2019
Research
2020
The Imperial Cathedral in Königslutter (Germany) as an Immersive Experience in Virtual Reality with Integrated 360 • Panoramic Photography. Applied Sciences 10(4).
Development of an interactive, immersive virtual reality experience of the historic city model Stade 1620. Int. Arch. Photogramm. XLII-2.
2019
Islamic Empire at Work Digital Atlas, University of Hamburg