Avery Lake
Finding the human signal in the Intelligence Age
I'm Avery Lake, a Swiss-Canadian conceptual artist and ethicist. My work — limited editions, interactive digital pieces, and installations — asks what remains irreducibly human as machines take on more of what we once thought only we could do.
Most art about AI is either hype or fear
It's easy to make work about artificial intelligence that either celebrates the technology or warns against it. I'm interested in something harder: what actually happens to meaning, memory, and identity as generative tools become part of everyday life — and what, if anything, stays untouched.
What I make
Conceptual & digital artworks
Limited-edition physical pieces and interactive digital experiences exploring AI, ethics, and identity
Exhibitions & installations
Participatory installations and gallery works shown across BC and beyond
Curatorial & speaking work
Founder and curator of TEDxAbbotsford, drawing on a background in bioethics and philosophy of technology
Grounded in real research, not just aesthetics
My work comes out of over a decade of doctoral and postdoctoral research into human enhancement and the ethics of artificial intelligence — a PhD in bioethics from the University of Zurich and postdoctoral work at the University of Calgary. That background shapes every piece, from a hand-drawn QR code that mirrors the viewer back to themselves to a digital ritual built around porcelain masks of constructed identity.
How this works
Gallery
Full collection of editioned and digital works available for acquisition
CV & Exhibitions
Full biography, exhibition history, and press coverage
The Age of Beauty (Manifesto)
Seven principles for art-making in the Intelligence Age
The Gift of Breath
Current featured five-work digital exhibition
The Digital Audit
Eight interactive protocols testing the human condition
The Signal (album)
Nine-track ambient electronic album, companion to The Digital Audit
Abbotsford News feature
Local press coverage of the artwork "I, Human"
The Human Signal (Substack)
Writing archive and newsletter
Let's talk about the work
You leave with a piece, a partnership, or a conversation that treats AI and technology as a question worth sitting with — not a trend to chase.