Guy de Lancey

Guy de Lancey is an award-winning director, designer, and conceptual detective across many disciplines with a background in Performance, Film, Human Movement, and Neuropsychology.

He was awarded a collaborative research grant to attend Fabrica, the Benetton cross-disciplinary Arts and Communication Research Center in Italy, under the directorship of Godfrey Reggio and Oliviero Toscani. He also studied creative and screenwriting at NYU.

He has worked extensively in the performing arts as both director and designer, and has created and designed large-scale immersive multi-media experiences from Seoul, South Korea to South Africa.

He comes to Barnard with over twenty years of experience in multiple forms of image and story-making practice, having worked in film and theater as a director, cinematographer, lighting and scenic designer, and technical design consultant. He has had his artistic work exhibited at Signs and Symbols Gallery in New York and The Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Austria.

He is the Associate Director of the Movement Lab and oversees the collaborative use and project development of the Movement Lab. He is an international ensemble faculty member at the New School of the Anthropocene, based in London, as well as a Salzburg Global Fellow.