Geoff lillemon biography

Short Bio: Geoffrey Lillemon is a cult figure and artist in Amsterdam.
Pioneering digital artist Geoffrey Lillemon works at the intersection between technical innovation and art.
Geoffrey Lillemon is a Digital Artist working in fashion, music and emerging technologies.

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IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFFREY LILLEMON

How are you today?
Good, I’m working on a series of sculptures for the new Bernhard Willhelm collection. We’ve worked together for at least a decade now. We are always on the same trip so we are currently in the sports mood. Always working but making time for exercising and praying against the cold for a new summer.

That sounds really cool. In your own words, could you describe your craft and what you do?
If you look at everything I’ve done, I think I’m one of the lucky few that has been able to keep a consistent art practice and style that goes across commercial and personal work. Occasionally I’ll show in galleries and do the traditional formats to showcase my art. But I really work as a commercial artist. So instead of selling it to a private collector, I’m often selling it to brands. It seems that my work as punk as it is appealing to the mainstream domain. My personal interests are always in line commercially, especially with the fashion and music world which is where most of my work is coming f

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Space is the Place: Interview with Geoffrey Lillemon about dystopian VR aesthetics

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Space is the Place: Staging the VR-Smart Phone Lifestyle Wars

Interview with VR artist Geoffrey Lillemon by Geert Lovink

(Exhibition website: https://miekegerritzen.com/space-is-the-place/. More images by Geoffrey Lillemon, based on the @droog installation, at Geoffrey’s website: http://geoffreylillemon.com/spaceistheplace/. The images used in this posting merge the sloganism on the wall of the gallery and the mannequins. I have posted my own photos of the exhibit here, taken during the exhibit @droog in October 2019)

The idea for the Space is the Place exhibit started when Dutch designer and curator Mieke Gerritzen purchased around thirty second-hand mannequins for a show in the temporary `@droog exhibition space in downtown Amsterdam, which she was curating during 2019. The dummies are normally used in a shop to display the latest fashion items. Mieke started to dress them up like dystopian cyborgs, fusing VR headsets on the mannequins heads with clay so that the goggl

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About Lillemon

In the work of Geoffrey Lillemon, where intention and aesthetic often intersect, my trajectory is not determined by premeditated design but rather by a series of spontaneous chain reactions. These are not mere responses to external stimuli; they are catalyzed by innate curiosities, emergent technologies, and the unyielding pressures of existence.

The realm of commerce, at its core, can be seen as an arena where we constantly grapple with existential stress, striving to dissolve it and momentarily return to a transient state of bliss. This cyclical nature of tension and release, while seemingly Sisyphean, becomes the very fuel for artistic endeavor. It's as if the universe, in its infinite wisdom, has designed this interplay to be the crucible in which creativity is birthed.

With the relentless march of technology, we find ourselves on the precipice of constant evolution. The rapidity required to stay abreast, if not ahead, becomes a race not against time, but against stagnation. This urgency, this pulsating rhythm of the present, compels me to continually re