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Bio

Laure-Anne Jacobs studied Monumental Arts at the Sint-Lucas Academy in Ghent. She has participated in numerous exhibition projects, often with a focus on integrated art. The rise of digital media has played a key role in the development of her artistic practice. Her interpretation of reality takes on diverse forms of expression, each tailored to a specific context. In her work, she combines various processes and technologies, including digital prints, photographic imagery, film, the internet, and experimental new media.

Laure-Anne Jacobs explores the interplay between audiovisual and online media, as well as the impact of emerging communication technologies on the public space—both physical and digital. Public space and broader societal structures serve as a framework through which she engages in dialogue with reality, revealing hidden processes.

Since 2010, she has formed the artist duo LarbitsSisters together with her sister, social media researcher Bénédicte Jacobs. In 2011, they founded the media platform LarbitsLab, where art and science converge in socially critical installations, performances, and research projects.

Over time, themes such as energy consumption, ecological inequality, and climate have become central to their work. These urgent issues demand disruptive visions and speculative solutions. In their recent practice, the LarbitsSisters have focused on ecological art, weaving climatological principles into technology. Through computational design and biological processes, they investigate the morphogenetic potential of materials, leading to a new spatial practice where ecology, technology, and design intersect.

The work of the LarbitsSisters has been presented at various national and international exhibitions, festivals, and symposia. They have received several awards, including the Golden Nica (Ars Electronica) and the Nova New Media Interactive Art Prize.

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Exhibitions

• 2025
  Photosynthesising Flowerpots, Collectible NY25, WSA, New York, USA

• 2024
  Photosynthesising Flowerpots, New European Bauhaus Festival 2024, Fair Visions & Projects, Arts & History Museum, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, BE

• 2023
  Photosynthesising Flowerpots, As Above, So Below, TOKAS Creator-in-Residence 2023 Exhibition, Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo, JP
  Crypto Miner Car, Life/Likeness, ICC Annual 2022 Exhibition, ICC InterCommunication Center, Online exhibition venue: https://hyper.ntticc.or.jp/, Tokyo, JP

• 2022
  Crypto Miner Car, Life/Likeness, ICC Annual 2022 Exhibition, ICC InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, JP
  Crypto Miner Car, NTAA’22 – International Art Exhibition For New Technology, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Ghent, BE

• 2021
  Crypto Miner Car, < MTL > CONNECT 2021 – The Digital Springs, On-site Moving Programme / Montreal-Brussels, CA-BE
  Crypto Miner Car, TACTUS – 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival, Museum of Modern Greek Culture, Athens, GR
  Crypto Miner Car, Gluon Art & Research, Brussels, BE

• 2020
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, ISEA 2020, Montréal, CA
  Crypto Miner Car, Entropies, Regional STARTS event on future energies, Snowball, Harelbeke, BE
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Currency, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Vancouver, CA
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, The Question of Intelligence – AI and the Future of Humanity, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, USA

• 2019
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Mind the Deep – Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum (McaM), Shanghai, CH
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa – An Exhibition on AI and Art, Hyundai Motorstudio Art District 798, Beijing, CN
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities Beyond Technology 2.0, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, KO

• 2018
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, ERROR – The Art of Imperfection, Drive, Berlin, DE
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, NOVA New Media Interactive Art Prize, BIG HOUSE Contemporary Art Center, Wuhan, CN
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, CyberArts 2018, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Enter the BitRepublic, Gluon Platform for Art, Science and Technology, Brussels, BE
  BitSoil Popup Tax & Hack Campaign, Media Fast Forward, and& summit & festival, Leuven, BE

• 2017
  bitSOIL trader, Internet Yami-Ichi (インターネットヤミ市), iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and technology, Brussels, BE
  bitREPUBLIC, John Doe in the Metacity / Utopia & Distopia in Architecture, Halles Saint-Géry, Brussels, BE

• 2016
  bitREPUBLIC, Blockchain Fact. Fiction. Future, Showcase, iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, BE
  eu4you, exhibition Coding/Decoding Borders, antiAtlas, Espace Architecture Flagey-ULB, Brussels, BE

• 2015
  Algorithmic Tube Tales, RRI-ICT forum, iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels, BE
  Algorithmic Tube Tales, D.ART, Mechelen 2015, BE

• 2014
  TubePlot, Art & Digital Technologies: Disruptive Innovation practices for an Unknown Future, Bozar Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), Brussels, BE
  TubePlot, Vice versa: From research to media arts, Quinzaine numérique 2014, Mons, BE
  TubePlot, exhibition Citysonic #12, International Sound Arts festival, Mons, BE
  TubePlot, 20th International Conference on MultiMedia Modelling, Dublin, IR

• 2013
  MyMiniMaxiLoveLife, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Numediart Institute for Creative Technologies, Mons, BE
  The Flanograph, Sensing by Interface Design, 5th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, Numediart Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Mons, BE
  The Flanograph, Flânographier l’espace : pour une poétique computationnelle de saisie de l’expérience Urbaine, HyperUrbain 4: Hybrid Mobility, Valenciennes, FR
  The Flanograph, Conference Art and Geography Aesthetics and practices of spatial knowledges, University of Lyon, FR

• 2012
  Measurements, measuring the city, digitale tracks, Antwerpen Zuid, BE

• 2010
  Dunkerque Views, artist-in-residence, urban wanderings, a subjective study of the city of Dunkirk, La Plate-Forme Dunkerque, Dunkerque, FR
  Overview exhibition Photography circuit Flanders, FoMu Antwerpen, Antwerpen, BE

• 2009
  Scenes of Kortrijk, interactive scenes of the city of Kortrijk, in collaboration with the Theatre of Kortrijk and the City of Kortrijk, Kortrijk, BE

• 2008
  Photography circuit Flanders, Organic Urbanisation, travelling exhibition in Flanders, BE

• 2007
  Life Cycle, online art on Antwerp Internet Art, I.P.V. Antwerp, BE

• 2003
  Art posters in the shelter bus, E.N.E.R.G.I.E., Brussels, BE

• 2002
  Art in the neighborhood, Wijk Up, Bruges, BE

• 2001
  Art in the Forest of Soignes, Fagus, i,f, Brussels, BE

• 2000
  Telenicc, video with artist minutes, transmitted (2001) on ‘télé Bruxelles’, Brussels, BE

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Publications

• Japan Media Arts Festival, Award-winning Works and Jury Selections, 25th edition, 2022, 61 pp.
  

• Digital Art (World of Art) by Christiane Paul, Thames & Hudson, New Edition, released spring 2022
  

• Why Sentience, 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Isea 2020, Printemps Numérique, pp. 81.

• Mind the Deep, Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation, Ming contemporary art museum (Mcam), Ming Yuan Group, Li Songjian, Ling Feifei, pill.design, pp. 84.

• Brussels in SongEun: Imagining Cities Beyond Technology 2.0, Laurence Geoffrey’s, Ltd., Top Process, pp. 33-35.

• Lying Sophia & Mocking Alexa, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Gioia Xu, New Media Art Production Collaborator: HELU Culture Communication, pp. 9.

• CyberArts 2018, International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica, Ed. Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker, series: CyberArts, 2018. 256 pp., 578 ills.

• Flânographie, Eulalie Pierquin & Duo LarbitsSisters, in: 100 Notions pour l’Art Numérique, coll. 100 notions, Paris, Les Éditions de l’Immatériel

• Scenarizing Metropolitan Views: FlanoGraphing the Urban Spaces, Cathal Gurrin et al. (Eds.): MMM2014, Part II, LNCS, Springer, pp. 11-21.

• Flânographier l’espace : pour une poétique computationnelle de saisie de l’expérience Urbaine , HyperUrbain 4 : Mobilité et Parcours Hybrides, dir. Khaldoun Zreik, Europia Productions

• Metropolitan Views. Étude pour un dispositif de prototypage de la ville, projet d’étude réalisé dans le cadre de la résidence d’artiste, La Plateforme, Dunkerque, Mai 2010

• Digital art in Wallonia-Brussels Federation – Grants 2006-2010

• Fotografiecircuit Vlaanderen 2008-2009, Figura, Jan Van Broeckhoven

• E.N.E.R.G.Y., NICC Brussels and Commissioner of Culture of the city Brussels, 2004

• Sint-Jozef, Stills van het leven (2002), Bruges 2002, LA. Jacobs

• Kunst in opdracht (2000), The Flemish Government (Architecture) bOb Van Reeth and K. Laenen, Brussels 2000

• Telenicc, Brussels 2000, J. Timmermans

 

 

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