Artist Lecture: The Performance of the Algorithm w/ Geoffrey Lillemon

ABOUT THE LECTURE
This lecture will function as an active research session into the future of cinematic language through procedural systems, real-time computation, and artificial intelligence. Drawing from over two decades of work on oculart.com, Geoffrey Lillemon will discuss his approach to building living digital artworks that behave less like fixed films and more like autonomous worlds operating through timing, interaction, and transformation.
The lecture will explore how procedural logic, polyrhythmic timing structures, AI image systems, and browser-based technologies can expand cinema beyond linear montage into something more unstable, reactive, and alive. Central to the discussion is the idea that cinema remains technologically archaic: a medium still largely built around static sequences of locked images, despite emerging systems capable of generating endless visual mutation in real time.
The talk will also touch on spirituality within computational art, not as mysticism, but as the search for resonance within cold technological systems. These ideas connect directly to Lillemon's concept of "Quantum Editing," where cinematic meaning emerges from images continuously transforming between multiple possible states.
PROGRAM
18:45 Walk-in
19:00 Artist Lecture
20:15 Q&A
20:45 Drinks + Chat
21:30 Close
PRACTICALITIES
📍 Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
🗓 19th June 2026
💰 Free attendance
🎫 RSVP required
ABOUT GEOFFREY
Geoffrey Lillemon is an Amsterdam-based digital artist and a defining figure of the early internet avant-garde. Through his long-running platform Oculart, he helped pioneer a form of browser-based art that transformed the web into a space for cinematic, real-time, and interactive experiences. For over two decades, his work has explored the collision between classical romanticism, procedural systems, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.
Working across CGI, game engines, AI image systems, robotics, and live computational environments, Lillemon constructs artworks that behave less like fixed media and more like autonomous digital ecosystems. Central to his practice is the idea of timing: polyrhythmic structures, generative mutation, and systems that continuously evolve in response to code, interaction, and machine logic.
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais Immersif, Nxt Museum, Next Nature Museum, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Paradiso, and the Van Gogh Museum. Alongside his artistic practice, Lillemon continues to research procedural image systems, real-time technologies, and new relationships between physical and computational space through robotics, sensors, and live generative environments.
For a feel of what we're walking into, preview Geoffrey's A Portrait of Contrast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xoDx2hj-dU
Learn more about Geoffrey and his work on his website, Oculart, or Instagram.
ABOUT AI GREENHOUSE
AI Greenhouse is a two-year collaboration between the Netherlands Film Academy and AIxDESIGN to research and cultivate (more) responsible approaches to AI in filmmaking and film education.
Led by artist-researchers Nadia Piet and Pablo Núñez Palma, AI Greenhouse organizes public event programmes, runs artistic experiments, and compiles towards a Creative’s AI Literacy Cookbook — a set of experimental pedagogy practices to contribute to the ethical, sustainable and community-driven integration of AI in filmmaking.
ABOUT NETHERLANDS FILM ACADEMY
The Netherlands Film Academy (NFA) is part of the Amsterdam University of the Arts, and the only film school in The Netherlands that trains emerging filmmakers in all subdisciplines: directing, screenwriting, cinematography, editing, sound, production design, visual effects, and interactive media. Based in Amsterdam, it offers hands-on, collaborative education with state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry partnerships.
ABOUT AIxDESIGN
AIxDESIGN (AIxD) is an independent organization conducting critical and creative research on AI. We challenge mainstream tech narratives by making space for the rest of us — centering intersectional, inclusive, and ethical approaches through community-led projects. Learn more at aixdesign.co.