

Lucas Paris develops a practice articulated around audiovisual performance and the design of audiovisual instruments, weaving together industrial design, programming, software art, and real-time systems. His current research takes the performer’s intuition as its raw material: how to reach a state where thought gives way to gesture and listening, and how the cybernetic interface, carried by touchscreens, becomes the site of that negotiation. He is drawn to the meaning lodged in interface symbols and icons, to their agentic charge, and to the way feedback between human, machine, and image transforms these signs into playing partners. He considers synthesis, in its various forms, as his medium, and cultivates his relationship with it through design, interaction, and improvisation. His projects have toured internationally since 2017.