Tom Lane is a Hamburg-based artist working with cinematic systems, simulation, and expanded moving image. His practice explores identity, perception, and embodiment within digitally mediated environments, often blurring the boundaries between film, performance, installation, and real-time systems.
Working with tools such as game engines, audiovisual technologies, generative processes and writing, Lane treats his work not as a fixed narrative form but as an evolving system—one that unfolds through duration, observation and interaction. His practice is research-driven, using experimentation, textual reflection and iteration as central methods of working.
Across his work, identity is approached as unstable and distributed, shaped by memory, behaviour, technological conditions, and ecological entanglement rather than singular representation. Increasingly, his projects consider the relationship between human and non-human systems, exploring how embodiment, consciousness, and care might extend beyond the human subject. His works often remain open-ended, allowing meaning to emerge through process rather than resolution.
Email: tomlarkinlane@proton.me
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