Alex Lee

In 2018 Lee collaborated with new media artist Erin_Gee_(artist) to produce an artistic video game, Project H.E.A.R.T. ("Holographic Empathy Attack Robots Team"). It is presented as an installation on a desktop computer with an oculus headset and a biosensor on the user's hand. The sensor would measure changes in their skin conductance and heart rate as they played the video game. Users are challenged to use their focus and empathy to support in-game soldiers' morale in order to win, as opposed to enacting the typical violence in first-person shooter video games.

In 2017, Lee was part of a VR group show called The Sands at Essex Flowers, a storefront gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Reviewed critically by HyperAllergic and Smithsonian magazine, the virtual reality works were curated around the myth of an abandoned casino lying destitute from the bygone era of Fifties Vegas glory, and showcased a 1:1 replica of Essex Flowers venue with embedded digital artworks.

Lee was born in Seoul, Korea in 1982 and grew up in America. He did his undergraduate and graduate degrees at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, pursuing photography in the former and then Art & Technology in the latter.