Hi, I'm Lukas, a graphic designer in Amsterdam. I'm interested in the aesthetics of autonomy: the way it looks and feels, the way we talk about it, the groups and individuals who struggle for it – and the tactics, terms and conditions necessary to create and maintain it, online as well as offline. Sometimes, I build, break and fix small servers for myself and for my friends.
I'm part of the Amsterdam-based publishing collective Spookstad that emerged from the housing struggle and promotes direct emancipatory action. Together with Justus Gelberg I run the graphic design studio Correspondence, where we take briefings, emails, meetings, calls & ideas and turn them into pdf, jpeg, html, ppt, mp4 and more.
Curriculum Vitae
Lukas Engelhardt, born 1991 in Hamburg, Germany, lives and works in Amsterdam.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
- Permanent Installation A Server is a Mountain that Takes a Village, Post-Office Amsterdam, NL
- Installation Zoom, Resolution, Server-Side Decay, Design Museum Ghent Ghent, BE
2023
- Participated in Night of Year, with Tommy Smits and Daniel Dmyszewicz, Les Rencontres d'Arles Arles, FR
2022
- Participated in Digital Shadows, Public Library of Amsterdam Amsterdam, NL
- Participated in Museumnacht Amsterdam, Waag Amsterdam, NL
- Curated & produced Piep Knars Krijs Kraak, Het Monument Amsterdam, NL
- Participated in Bye Design, Kunstkapel Amsterdam, NL
2021
- Curated House Peace, Hotel Mokum Amsterdam NL
- Participated in Works in Progress, Fuse Gallery Amsterdam NL
- Participated in Oh, the Places You’d Go, Willem Twee Den Bosch NL
2019
- Participated in A Really Fake Future, ISO Amsterdam, NL
2018
- Participated in 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, Arter Gallery (Earth School) Istanbul, TU
- Contributed to Open Studios, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, NL
2017
- Participated in Ultratatane 3, Festival international de l’affiche et du graphisme Chaumont, FR
- Participated in Declaring Reason, Meermanno Museum The Hague, NL
Teaching
2024
- Workshop Métaphors Numerique with François Girard-Meunier, Master Creative Director, Fonderie de l'image Paris, FR
- 8-week Workshop Portfolio Design, Fine Arts Department, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
- Workshop Fake it ‘till You Make it, Graphic Design Department, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2023
- Workshop The Cloud is Just your Old Computer, with Aymeric Mansoux, part of the series Reassemble Lab 5: Practicing Permacomputing, Fiber Labs Amsterdam, NL
- Guest Tutor Design and Activism, Dirty Art Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, NL
- Guest Lecturer at New Media Department, Amsterdam University Amsterdam, NL
2019
- Substitute Teacher Graphic Design Department, The Hague, NL
- Motion Capture Workshop Amsterdam, NL
Preaching
2024
- Lecture on Amsterdam's City Branding, with Jan Egbers, Loods 6 Amsterdam, NL
- Lecture Digital Metaphors, Post-Office Amsterdam, NL
- Lecture Digital Metaphors, Master Creative Director, Fonderie de l'image Paris, FR
- Guest Lecture Design and Activism, Graphic Design Department, Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
- Panel Discussion Screentime Airtime Facetime, at Expanded Publishing Fest / 20 Years INC, OT301 Amsterdam, NL
2023
- Lecture Practices of Digital Resilience & Permacomputing symposium, part of Reassemble Lab 5: Practicing Permacomputing, Fiber Labs, Amsterdam, NL
- Panel Talk Entangled Networks 2: Empires, with Lotje Beek, curated by Miranda Mungai, at Impakt Festival, Het Huis Utrecht, NL
- Performance Lecture Wireless Fidelity with Jack Bardwell, part of Broken Channels research program, Fanfare Amsterdam, NL
- Outside Lecture at The Hmm’s Data Centre Tour Wieringermeerpolder, NL
- Workshop & Lecture Are You Working in the Dark, at Artsformation Summit, La Vallée Brussels, BE
- Lecture about Permacomputing with Ola Bonati, at Audiovisual Art Assembly, Fiber Festival, Oedipus Brewery Amsterdam, NL
- Workshop Permacomputing: are you working in the dark? Introduction to permacomputing through a guided visualization and interactive game, at Critical Infrastructure Lab, Singel Library Amsterdam, NL
- Lecture how-to.computer: a self-hosting.guide, at In-between Media: Hybrid Tactics in the Crisis Era conference, Spui25 Amsterdam, NL
- Lecture at Digital Shadows Performance Evening, Public Library of Amsterdam Amsterdam, NL
2022
- Guest on Good Times Bad Times podcast Rotterdam, NL
2019
- Podcast Follow the Money with Pub Radio & Mushroom Radio, Droog Amsterdam, NL
2018
- Lecture 41 Shades of Blue, The Hmm, Amsterdam, NL
Publishing
2023
- Zine A Self Hosting Manual, with Paul Bille and Ada Reinthal, self-published Amsterdam, NL
2022
- Online Essay Surf Serf Serve, self-published Amsterdam, NL
- Essay New Dependencies, Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, NL
- Contribution to Cyberfeminism Index, edited by Mindy Seu, Inventory Press Los Angeles, US
Published
2024
- AE-001 Social Server, APOSSIBLE
- Permanently computed: The museum is burning. Can permacomputing help?, Olivier Van D’huynslager Gent, BE
2023
- Our Terms, Our Conditions – Report of the 2023 IMPAKT Festival, Klara Debeljak, Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, NL
- Interview Cloudsquatting—The Politics and Practices of Making and Being your own Server in Control, Refusal, Trust and Care: A Toolkit for Making Change in the Cultural Field, Transmediale, Waag Futurelab, FACT, Artsformation, 2023
- What is Permacomputing?, Johnny Hankins, Technology Bloggers
- In-Between Media Conference – Thoughts and Impressions, Silvio Lorusso, Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, NL
- Interview Game changer #6: Squat the cloud, Waag Amsterdam, NL
- The Salmon of Knowledge, Sandberg Institute graduation catalogue, Amsterdam, NL