This autumn, Goldsmiths CCA will host the largest UK institutional exhibition to date of London-based artist Lawrence Lek (b.1982, DE). Known internationally for single-project presentations combining film, installation, video games, and sound, this exhibition is the first to interweave multiple strands of Lek’s ongoing cinematic universe. For over a decade, Lek has developed a practice he describes as ‘worldbuilding for non-humans’, centering his narrative around Sinofuturism: a speculative framework in which the problems and promises of artificial intelligence and China’s technological influence converge. At turns dark and playful, his work is powerfully affective, featuring a recurring cast of characters who ask us what it means to exist in an age of machine consciousness and rapid social change – or what Lek calls a ‘science fiction that already exists’.