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Bio
Markos R. Kay (neé
Christodoulou) is a multidisciplinary artist and
director with a focus in art & science and
generative art.
He is best known for the
artificial-life video art experiment aDiatomea
(2008), first exhibited at Ernst Haeckel's
Phyletic Museum, the generative short film The
Flow (2011), shown worldwide, and the series of particle
simulation paintings Quantum
Fluctuations (2016), now part of the
Fidelity Art Collection.
His art and design practice
ranges from screen-based media to print and has
been featured in museums, exhibitions,
festivals, and publications such as the ArtScience
Museum, Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ars Electronica,
National Geographic, Wired and VICE.
His work can be described as
an ongoing exploration of digital abstraction
through experimentation with generative methods.
His experiments often explore the complexity of
the invisible and mysterious worlds of molecular
biology and particle physics. A major theme in his
work is the computational paradigm of the natural
sciences as seen in the relationship between
scientific observation, simulation and
visualisation.
He has worked with various
scientific, government and art organizations
including: MIT, Belfast City, European
Parliament, Howard Hughes Medical institute,
Simons Foundation, National Hemophilia
Foundation, and Playgrounds Design Festival.
He has also worked with commercial clients such as:
Apple, Fox, Disney, Nike, Adidas, Maserati,
Ford, MTV, Nvidia, BBC, Vimeo, Warner Bros and Channel 4.
In tandem with his art and
professional practice, he has worked as lecturer
of design and animation at Chelsea College of Art
& Design and University of Greenwich. Between
2016 to 2020 he was Pathway Leader of Animation
Arts at the London College of Communication,
University of the Arts London, where he
collaborated with partners such as the Barbican,
the Horniman Museum, Stanley Kubrick Archives,
Imagine Science Films and others.
In 2014, Kay started an
experimental art
lab with the aim to explore the
intersections of the digital and the physical by
combining computational simulations and procedural
techniques with painting, textiles, ceramics, and
sculpture.
In 2016 he became disabled due
to a chronic neuro-immune disease known as ME/CFS
which by 2019 rendered him permanently housebound
and largely bed-bound. He continues to create art,
scientific illustrations and moving image works
within the limits of his disability and in 2020
started publishing his personal sketchbook
work developed while bed-bound.
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Interviews
Stash Media 2023
Mercado 2023
Red-Eye Magazine 2022
Wired Middle East 2022
VICE Creators 2017
Labocine 2016
Sciencemotionology
2015
Never too curious 2015
Features
Colossal, 2020
2022
Aeon 2021
VICE 2017, 2012
Stash Media, 2017
Visual news, 2015, 2013
Fubiz, 2015
io9 2014, 2013
Creative Bloq, 2013
Motionographer, 2012
Watchthetitles, 2012
Dataisnature, 2010
Publications
National
Geographic Feb 2023
Avata Rolodex 2023
A Scientific World 2023
Wired Middle East Feature
Oct 2022
Nostos: Poetry, Fiction & Art 2021
National Geographic Feb 2021
Expanded Animation Anthology 2019
CyberArts Catalogue & DVD 2018
HemAware Magazine 2018
Journal of Visual Comm. in Medicine, 2017
CyberArts Catalogue & DVD 2016
Super-Modified, Gestalten, 2015
HHMI Bulletin, Winter 2015
Quanta Magazine, 2015
Super-Modified, Gestalten, 2015
Computer
Arts Magazine, Issue 210 2013
Jotta Publication, Issue 1 2012
Unknown Disorder, OFFF 2012
Stash
Magazine, Issue 93 2012
Selected Exhibitions
MAXXI National Museum,
Rome 2022
Voltaje, Colombia 2022
VISIONS Galeria.kollektiva, Germany 2022
Museum of Contemporary Digital Art 2021
Prix Ars Electronica, Austria 2019
Materialize, State Studio,
Berlin, 2019
ArtScience Museum, Signapore, 2019
Visual Voice Art Gallery, Montreal 2019
Digital Intersections, Italy 2018
STARTS Exhibition, Austria 2018
Digital Decade, London, 2017
Louisiana Art & Science Museum, USA 2017
Spectrum Exhibition, Abu Dhabi 2017
Bio-Art, Bordeaux, France 2016
Biofiction, International
Tour 2014-2016
Ars Electronica: Expanded Animation (Speaker),
Austria 2016
Art+Science in Motion, Montreal 2015
Biofiction, Vienna 2014
Mist Moving Image, UK 2014
Urban art meets local heroes, Munich 2013
Gates Foundation, Washington 2012-13
Refraction, London 2012
Wallace Space London 2010
Phyletic Museum Germany 2009
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