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Lou Cantor
is a Berlin based artist collective founded in 2011 whose main scope of interest is grounded in intersubjectivity and interpersonal communication. Lou Cantor’s practice explores the polysemic minefield of contemporary communication, where medium, message, and meaning constantly fold back into each other. Lou Cantor’s preferred theater of operations, in other words, is that which a certain French theorist has termed the “Empire of Signs” - and their preferred subject the spell cast by the enigma of signification on the minds of this Empire’s peoples. Based on the collectives actual field of research they regularly release readers and contribute to various publications. Previous exhibitions include Parallax, Medūza Gallery, Vilnius; Endless Eye, Orońsko Sculpture Center, Orońsko; Time Crystals, Sgomento, Zürich; Ars Electronica, Linz; Hypersea, curated by Juliette Desorgues; The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Fellow Travelers, apexart, NY; Cyborg Dreams, Pitt St, NY; The Labour of Watching, leto gallery, Warsaw and OSLO10, Basel; Language and Misunderstanding, CUNY, NY; Epistemic Excess, Artists Space, New York; 7th Berlin Biennale and New National Art, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

Mirrormap exhibition curated by Kolja Glaeser and Valentinas Klimasauskas
Jesse Darling
Lina Lapelite performance curated by Kolja Glaeser and Valentinas Klimasauskas
Joshua Citarella curated by Kolja Glaeser and Valentinas Klimasauskas
Peter Wächtler curated by Kolja Glaeser and Valentinas Klimasauskas
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall with Yin-Ju Chen, Tony Conrad, Dan Graham, Saodat Ismailova, Yen-Chao Lin, Shana Moulton and Adrien Piper
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall with Yin-Ju Chen, Tony Conrad, Dan Graham, Saodat Ismailova, Yen-Chao Lin, Shana Moulton and Adrien Piper
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall with Yin-Ju Chen, Tony Conrad, Dan Graham, Saodat Ismailova, Yen-Chao Lin, Shana Moulton and Adrien Piper
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall with Yin-Ju Chen, Tony Conrad, Dan Graham, Saodat Ismailova, Yen-Chao Lin, Shana Moulton and Adrien Piper
Media and Mind Control curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall with Yin-Ju Chen, Tony Conrad, Dan Graham, Saodat Ismailova, Yen-Chao Lin, Shana Moulton and Adrien Piper
Lou Cantor Parallax at Meduza, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko
Lou Cantor Parallax at Meduza, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko
Lou Cantor Parallax at Meduza, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko
Lou Cantor Parallax at Meduza, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko
 Parallax, Jozefina Chetko
Lou Cantor, Jozefina Chetko, Audrius Pocius
AI Hallucinations with Lou Cantor, John Miller, Kolja Glaeser
AI Hallucinations with Lou Cantor, John Miller, Kolja Glaeser
AI Hallucinations with Lou Cantor, John Miller, Kolja Glaeser
AI Hallucinations with Lou Cantor, John Miller, Kolja Glaeser
AI Hallucinations with Lou Cantor, John Miller, Kolja Glaeser
Artists scores, scenarios and instructions curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall
Artists scores, scenarios and instructions curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall
Artists scores, scenarios and instructions curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall
Artists scores, scenarios and instructions curated by Kolja Glaeser and Piper Marshall
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
The endless eye by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at the polish sculpture center
Collision discourses
crash barrier 
Lou Cantor
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo, Flash Art Review
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
The Chrystal World by Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko) at Sgomento Zurigo
Siberia Biennial with Lou Cantor, Jozefina Chetko
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Goethe Institute
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Goethe Institute
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Goethe Institute
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Goethe Institute
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Goethe Institute
Sergej Kowalewski
Thibaut de Ruyter
The Fine Hands Show
Lou Cantor
Siberia Biennale
Alisa Berger, BIEST, Barbara Breitenfellner, Kaan Bulak, Lou Cantor, Martin Dammann, Tobias Dostal, Cécile Dupaquier, William Engelen, Simon Faithfull, Friederike Feldmann, Katia Fouquet, Zohar Fraiman, Claudio Gobbi, Olaf Holzapfel, Brendan Howell, Rolf Julius, Robert Lippok, Maru Mushtrieva, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Robert Lippok, Ulrike Mohr, Olaf Nicolai, An Paenhuysen, Albrecht Pischel, Tim Plamper, Marie Rief, Maya Schweizer, Heidi Specker, Tim Tetzner, Albert Weis, Felix Leon Westner, Vadim Zakharov, Gloria Zein, Tobias Zielony
Goethe Institute
Lou Cantor at Muzeum Ludwig
Lou Cantor at Muzeum Ludwig
Lou Cantor at Muzeum Ludwig
Lou Cantor at Muzeum Ludwig
Lou Cantor at First Person Plural at EMAF with Kolja Glaeser, Farid Rakun, Isabel de Sena and Raqs Media Collective
Lou Cantor at First Person Plural at EMAF with Kolja Glaeser, Farid Rakun, Isabel de Sena and Raqs Media Collective
Lou Cantor at First Person Plural at EMAF with Kolja Glaeser, Farid Rakun, Isabel de Sena and Raqs Media Collective
EMAF first person plural
Lou Cantor
Farid Rakun
Vika Kirchenbauer
Isabel de Sena
Lou Cantor at Hollywood Babylon, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim and Autre MagazineLou Cantor - Kolja Glaeser - at ARS Electronica Moving the Image
Lou Cantor, Liz Deschenes, Disipula, David Horvitz, Staff Jamieson, Censure Koike, Taisuke Koyama, Louise Lawler, John MacLean, Sarah Pickering, Salvo, Dayanita Singh, Clare Strand, Dana Talmor, Edouard Taufenbach, Corinne Vionnet
Duncan Wooldridge

Spiritual Reality, Grimaldi Forum 2019

The Annotated Reader
Quartz Studio 
Lou Cantor Ryan Gander
The way things run part III Der Lauf der Dinge
PS120 
Lou Cantor
Julieta Aranda
Anna Sophie Berger
Peter Fischli and David Weiss Claire Fontaine Isabella Furnkäs, Mariana Hahn Alicja Kwade, Fred Lonidier, Phillip Lorca diCorcia, Mickael Marman, Ahmet Ogut, Gina Proenza, Thilo F. Reich, Analia Saban, Katharina Stewarding, Eric Winkler, He Xiangyu
Lou Cantor Spiritual Reality 
 The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 
Bonner Kunstverein
The way things run part III Der Lauf der Dinge
PS120 
Lou Cantor
Julieta Aranda
Anna Sophie Berger
Peter Fischli and David Weiss Claire Fontaine Isabella Furnkäs, Mariana Hahn Alicja Kwade, Fred Lonidier, Phillip Lorca diCorcia, Mickael Marman, Ahmet Ogut, Gina Proenza, Thilo F. Reich, Analia Saban, Katharina Stewarding, Eric Winkler, He Xiangyu
Lou Cantor Spiritual Reality 
 The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 
Bonner Kunstverein
Lou Cantor at CAC Vilnius, Baltic Triennial, Kolja Glaeser
Lou Cantor at Bonner Kunstverein, Kolja Glaeser, Michelle Cotton. Mark Leckey
Lou Cantor at Bonner Kunstverein, Kolja Glaeser, Michelle Cotton. Mark Leckey

Fellow Travelers
apexart, NY

Fellow Travellers 
Apex Art NY New York 
Lou Cantor, Halil Altindere, Amen Feizabadi, Azin Feizabadi, Soda Jerk, Sun Ra, Ionel Talpazan
Katherine Rogers
Strange Strangers are not only strange but strangely so...
House of Electronic Arts Basel 
Lou Cantor
Anna Uddenberg
Klaus Weber
Olaf Breuning 
Aura Rosenberg
Strange Strangers are not only strange but strangely so...
House of Electronic Arts Basel 
Lou Cantor
Anna Uddenberg
Klaus Weber
Olaf Breuning 
Aura Rosenberg
Strange Strangers are not only strange but strangely so...
House of Electronic Arts Basel 
Lou Cantor
Anna Uddenberg
Klaus Weber
Olaf Breuning 
Aura Rosenberg
Strange Strangers are not only strange but strangely so...
House of Electronic Arts Basel 
Lou Cantor
Anna Uddenberg
Klaus Weber
Olaf Breuning 
Aura Rosenberg
Strange Strangers are not only strange but strangely so...
House of Electronic Arts Basel 
Lou Cantor
Anna Uddenberg
Klaus Weber
Olaf Breuning 
Aura Rosenberg

This Is the Sea

This is the sea
eflux
Artmonte Carlo salon d'art
Lou Cantor 
spatial potentials 
concept of liquidity
Hito Steyer
This is the sea
eflux
Artmonte Carlo salon d'art
Lou Cantor 
spatial potentials 
concept of liquidity
Hito Steyer
This is the sea
eflux
Artmonte Carlo salon d'art
Lou Cantor 
spatial potentials 
concept of liquidity
Hito Steyer

Cyborg dreams

Cyborg Dreams Lou Cantor, Antoine Catala, Robot
Artificial Emotions
Cyborg Dreams Lou Cantor, Antoine Catala, Robot
Artificial Emotions
Cyborg Dreams Lou Cantor, Antoine Catala, Robot
Artificial Emotions
Reinventing Horizons and Artificial Cinema
Tranzit Display
eflux 
Lou Cantor
Prague

The Labour of Watching
Difficulty of seeing

Lou Cantor Labor of Watching  Who will watch the watchers
Lou Cantor Labor of Watching Reflections on a computational model of vision
collision discourses
Lou Cantor Labor of Watching Reflections on a computational model of vision
collision discourses
Lou Cantor Labor of Watching Reflections on a computational model of vision
collision discourses
Lou Cantor Labor of Watching Reflections on a computational model of vision
collision discourses
Lou Cantor Language and Misunderstanding

The Labour of Watching
Collision Discourses

Labor of Watching Lou Cantor
Collision Discourses
Masks
Lou Cantor
Masks
Lou Cantor
Masks
Lou Cantor
Masks
Lou Cantor
Masks
Lou Cantor
Clouds, Lou Cantor Paweł Althamer
Geneva Genfwatch Lou Cantor's known unknown
MoMA WARSAWPOST DIGITAL CULTURESMoMA Warsaw
Lou Cantor  
Scarf
BB7PLAYBerlin Biennale 7 BB7
Lou Cantor 
Beyond
Lou Cantor at Zettai TokyoLou Cantor in Flash Art Fall 24
Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser and Manuel Bogalheiro at Culturgest Lisbon
Kolja Glaeser, Manuel Bogalheiro and Sofia Nunes at Cultures Lisboa
Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko at the AI panel at HKW
In discussion with Lou Cantor, Bassam el Baroni, Giulia Bini and Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás at HKW Berlin
Lou Cantor and Celina Bras in Contemporanea magazine #10
Lou Cantor and Alberta Romano in Contemporaneo #10
Panel at ICA Miami with Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, X Zhu-Nowell and Josh Kline
talk about relative intimacies at Lafayette Anticipations with Kolja Glaeser, X Zhu-Nowell, Josh Kline and Mira Dayal at ICA Miami
talk about relative intimacies at Lafayette Anticipations with Lou Cantor, Elena Vogman, Samantha Ozer, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko, Aga Ingarden and Patrick Riechert
Relative Intimacies book
MIT press
Sternberg press
Lou Cantor, Agata Ingarden, Samantha Ozer, Patrick Urs Riechert and Elena Vogman
Relative Intimacies book
MIT press
Sternberg press
Lou Cantor, Agata Ingarden, Samantha Ozer, Patrick Urs Riechert and Elena Vogman
talk about relative intimacies at Lafayette Anticipations with Lou Cantor, Elena Vogman, Samantha Ozer, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko, Aga Ingarden and Patrick Riechert
Relative Intimacies 
MIT press
Sternberg press
Lou Cantor, Agata Ingarden, Samantha Ozer, Patrick Urs Riechert and Elena Vogman
lafayette Anticipations
Venice Biennale interview with Lou Cantor and Samantha OzerSumma Technologiae program
lou cantor
eflux
exhibition
seminars
conference
Lou Cantor and Mirabelle Jones in Provence magazine
Provence Magazine
Lou Cantor
Provence Magazine
Lou Cantor
the N game by Lou Cantor in Novembre Magazine
Lou Cantor photo stream in Gruppemagazin
Feature Extraction conference at UCLA with Kolja Glaeser, Lou Cantor, Hannah Black, Mashinka Hakopian, Lucky Dragons,Blaine O'Neill & Ulysses Pascal
ORDERPRINCETONThe Annotated Reader Ryan Gander, Lou Cantor
Learning and Unlearning Lou Cantor
Shifter 24
New York Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1
Lou Cantor in Spike Magazine #60
Lou Cantor in Spike magazine #60
art and technology talk at MoMA NY with Lou Cantor, Michelle Kuo, Josh Kline, Camille Henrot and Lynn Hershman Leeson
art and technology talk at MoMA NY with Lou Cantor (Kolja Glaeser), Michelle Kuo, Josh Kline, Camille Henrot and Lynn Hershman Leeson
art and technology talk at MoMA NY with Lou Cantor - Kolja Glaeser and Jozefina Chetko
Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko and Camille Henrot in a talk at MoMA NY
Mousse Magazine Issue 68
Post Work Society Lou Cantor
Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko, Anselm Franke and Kathrine Rochester in conversation at Teatro Goldoni for Venice Biennale 2019

Conversation with Anselm Franke and Katherine Rochester on Intersubjectivity

Teatro Goldoni, Venice, May 2019
Anselm Franke, Lou Cantor in conversation at Venice Biennale
Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina Chetko and Anselm Franke in conversation at Venice Biennale at Teatro Goldoni
Lou Cantor
Kolja Glaeser at Teatro Goldoni for Venice Biennale 2019
Lou Cantor Intersubjectivity vol2 book launch at ICA Miami
Kolja Glaeser (Lou Cantor), Natasha Stagg, Katherine Rochester, Mashinka Hakopian and Kathryn Kraczon in conversation at ICA Miami

Book launch and conversation with Chrissie Iles, Goshka Macuga, Natasha Stagg and Lou Cantor about Intersubjectivity at Serpentine Gallery

Lou Cantor, Natasha Stagg, Kolja Glaeser, Chrissie Iles, Goshka Macuga Josephine Chetko in conversation at Serpentine Gallery London
Lou Cantor at CAC Vilnius for Baltic Triennial prelude
Lou Cantor Starship
Lou Cantor Starship
Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, Goldin&Senneby at ICA London
Double Book
Launch For Machine Use Only 
eflux
Intersubjectivity Vol. 1
Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, Josephine Chetko, Paul Chan and Andrew Durbin at e-flux
Lou Cantor and Mo Salemy for DIS magazineLou Cantor
For Machine Use Only 
Contemplations on algorithmic epistemology
Edited by Mohammad Salemy, Benjamin H. Bratton, Elie Ayache, Gean Moreno, Judith Rodenbeck, Kate Steinmann, Steven Warwick
Lou Cantor artist profile at Rhizome NY, Kolja Glaeser, Jozefina
STERNBERG PRESSMIT PRESS
Time Farm 
Lou Cantor, David Joselit, Alexandra Pirici
The Center of Humanities
City University of New York CUNY
Intersubjectivity Vol 1. 
Language and Misunderstanding 
Sternberg Press MIT Press
Contributors
Cory Angel, Fia Backström, Alain Badiou, Erica Baum, Xu Bing, Paul Chan, Andrew Durbin, Jimmie Durham, Daniel Gruen, Nicky Marsh, Hito Steyer, Ariane Mueller
Lou Cantor, David Joselit and Reza Negarestani at Artists Space NY
David Joselit, Lou Cantor, Kolja Glaeser, Josepine Chetko and Reza Negarestani at Artists Space NY
STERNBERG PRESSMIT PRESSTurning Inward by Lou Cantor 2020 Published by Sternberg Press and MIT Press
Contributors| John Beeson, Svetlana Boym, Marta Dziewanska, Phillipp Ekardt Felix Ensslin, Orit Gat, David Joselit, William Kherbek, John Miller, Reza Negarestani, Matteo Pasquinelli, Dieter Roelstraete 
Edited by Lou Cantor and Clemens Jahn