Geoffrey Lillemon

For over 25 years, Geoffrey Lillemon has worked at the intersection of art, code, VFX, and performance, contributing to the early wave of browser-based and interactive experimentation that treated the internet not as a platform for distribution, but as a primary artistic medium. Operating under the moniker Oculart, he develops generative ecosystems in which code, CGI, and procedural logic function as expressive materials. Technology is often perceived as cold and optimized; Lillemon embeds themes of romance, theatricality, and vulnerability into computational systems. His works don't simulate life — they perform. He co-founded Champagne Valentine, the pioneering digital studio that defined the visual language of the early internet, and served as Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director of the Department of New Realities at Wieden+Kennedy. His work in experiential design at Random Studio (2006–2020) shaped interactive retail and exhibition environments for Gucci, Chanel, and the Getty family. Al Warburton recently described Lillemon as 'a conductor of viscera,' interested in 'circuitous arts of energy transfer' — building autonomous systems in art where the tension between control and autonomy is where he feels like Dr. Frankenstein.