Fabricio Lamoncha is an artist and researcher from Spain, based in Austria. After graduating with a PhD in 2024 from the University of Art and Design Linz with the dissertation titled “Interspecies Interstitial Interfaces: Why Do I Care for Indoor Plants but Let the Rucola Rot in the Fridge?”, Fabricio is currently Senior Artist at the Interface Cultures Master’s program, where he teaches, conducts research, curates and cares for the laboratory spaces. He is member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA and co-founder of the Leonardo Laser Talks Linz. His research explores the entanglements of media ecology and bioethics. His practice has been exhibited internationally and awarded with the Art and Artificial Life International Award Vida14.
Exhibitions
2025, Show Show, Linz.
2025, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2024, Sour-Sweet & Spicy, Slug Gallery, Leipzig
2024, Sour-Sweet & Spicy, Torhaus Gallery, Stadt Wehlen
2024, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2023, WIP Art & Technology Festival, CYENS, Nicosia, Cyprus.
2022, Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems (ENAS), Chemnitz.
2021, Speculum Artium Media Art Festival, Trbovlje.
2021, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2021, Macao International Art Biennale, Macao.
2021, Digital Square, Salzburg.
2021, LABOR 2025, Ars Electronica Center, Linz.
2021, WRO Media Art Biennale 2021, Wroclaw
2021, Pyuk, artist-in-residence.
2020, The Internet Yami-Ichi, Linz.
2020, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2020, Kultur Braucht Kunst, Schlossmuseum Linz.
2020, AMRO Festival, Linz.
2019, The Internet Yami-Ichi, Bologna.
2019, Best Off, Linz.
2019, The Internet Yami-Ichi, Linz.
2019, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2019, Consciousness Reframed International Conference, Porto.
2019, Best Before, Linz.
2018, MEM Festival, Bilbao.
2018, Speculum Artium Media Art Festival, Trbovlje.
2018, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2018, Botanical Garden, UCLA, Los Angeles.
2018, The Internet Yami-Ichi, H3K, Basel
2017, Speculum Artium Media Art Festival, Trbovlje.
2017, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2017, Transient Topographies International Conference, Galway.
2017, Natural Science Museum of Berlin.
2017, “Post-Internet Show”, Design Transfer, UdK, Berlin.
2017, Re-publica, Berlin.
2016, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2016, Venice Architecture Biennale, Greek Pavilion.
2016, Radical Networks, Transmediale, Berlin.
2016, Re-publica, Berlin.
2015, Neve Tsedek, Tel Aviv.
2014, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest.
2014, Vitoria Art Center, Bucharest.
2014, Design Transfer, Universität der Künste Berlin.
2013, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2013, “Animalische Ästhetiken” Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren.
2013, Lab30 Media Art Festival, Augsburg.
2012, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2012, Speculum Artium Media Art Festival, Trbovlje.
2012, iOS Space, IAMAS, Gifu.
2011, Nova Galleria, Trbovlje.
2011, TEDx Viena, Austria.
2011, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
2011, Österreichischer Skulpturenpark, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz.
2011, Speculum Artium Media Art Festival, Trbovlje.
2009, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz.
Curatorial
2025, Lab Songs II, Leonardo Laser Talk, Ars Electronica Festival.
2025, Post-Human Resources, Ars Electronica Festival.
2024, Lab Songs I, Leonardo Laser Talk, Ars Electronica Festival.
2024, Nous, Ars Electronica Festival.
2023, Danube Songs III, Leonardo Laser Talk, Ars Electronica Festival.
2023, Resonating Selves, Ars Electronica Festival.
2023, Apophenia, Kunsthalle Linz.
2022, Danube Songs II, Leonardo Laser Talk, Ars Electronica Festival.
2022, Crossing the Bridge, Ars Electronica Festival.
2022, Underwater Lilies, Kunsthalle Linz.
2022, Danube Songs I, Leonardo Laser Talk, Kunstuniversität Linz.
2021, Plant Intelligence, Leonardo Laser Talk, Ars Electronica Festival.
2021, Interface Cult, Ars Electronica Festival.
2021, Digital Square, Europark Salzburg.
2021, Scientific Protocols & Artistic Recipes, Ars Electronica Center, Linz.
2021, LABOR 2025, Chemnitz.
2020, State of Intimacy, Ars Electronica Festival.
2020, Sankt Interface, Linz.
2019, When I Look in the Mirror All I Can Think About Is How I Need a Haircut, Speculum Artium, Trbovlje.
2019, Best Before, Linz.
2019, Transcode, Ars Electronica Festival.
2019, Sankt Interface, Linz.
2018, Sankt Interface, Linz.
2018, Please Recharge, Ars Electronica Festival.
2017, Made in Linz, Ars Electronica Festival.
2017, Sankt Interface, Linz.
2016, Speculative Materialities, Ars Electronica Festival.
Conference Talks, Lectures & Publications
2025, The Laboratory as Heterotopia, Palace of Science, Belgrade.
2025, The Laboratory as Heterotopia, FMK, Belgrade.
2025, Lab songs, Sensing Fungi, IFK, Vienna.
2025, The Laboratory as Heterotopia, Speculum Artium, Trbovlje.
2025, Lab Songs - IC Labs, Cultivating Creative Ecologies, Winchester University.
2024, Lab songs - The Laboratory as Heterotopia, Peripheria Festival, Lisbon.
2024, Interspecies Interstitial Interfaces: Why Do I Care for Indoor Plants but Let the Rucola Rot in the Fridge?, PhD dissertation, Kunstuniversität Linz.
2023, Digital Weeds, Worklab, Mur.at, Graz.
2023, Post-Bio-Internet, Pixxelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
2023, Thinking Weed - Interstitial Ontologies, workshop/talk, PhD Colloquium, Kunstuniversität Linz.
2023, Post-Bio-Internet, section of the book "Meta.Space, Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital AgeAge", OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH.
2020, ASMR for Earthly Survival, workshop talk, AMRO Festival, Linz.
2019, Artist Talk, New Media Art and Industrial Cultural Heritage Symposium, Trbovlje.
2019, Artist Talk, CNSI, UCLA, Los Angeles.
2019, Biosemiotic Methods & Open-Source Network Technologies, artist talk, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
2019, Interspecies Artistic Research Strategies, published at journal JSTA, Special Issue Vol.12.
2019, Biosemiotic Methods and Open-Source Network Technologies, artistic research paper, Consciousness Reframed Conference, Porto.
2018, Please Don’t Feed the Animals, artistic research paper, Interface Politics International Conference, Barcelona.
2018, Artist Talk, CNSI, UCLA, Los Angeles.
2017, Diffractive Interfaces, artistic research paper published at Artnodes - Art, Science and Technology Journal.
2017, Conformed Inscriptions, artist talk, Transient Topographies International Conference, Galway.