# Marcus Wendt

> Marcus Wendt is the founder and CEO of FIELD.IO, a creative-technology studio based in London and Berlin. He is a digital artist and creative technologist working across design, brand experience and digital art, and an ultra-distance cyclist.

This is the personal site of Marcus Wendt. It collects his solo artworks, his ultra-distance cycling explorations, his public talks and press, a living status feed, and how to reach him.

He founded FIELD.IO in 2009 to work with creative intelligence: AI-powered brand systems that learn, adapt and surprise, for clients including Nike, Chanel and IBM. Outside the studio he races and explores remote terrain by bicycle.

## Works

Solo digital-art projects, new ways of seeing through light and image.

- [All works](https://marcuswendt.io/works)
- [Suprachromacy](https://marcuswendt.io/works/suprachromacy): Macro infrared photography of light-absorbing species, 2018. Featured in Colossal, My Modern Met, LAB Magazine, The Inspiration Grid
- [Fade To White](https://marcuswendt.io/works/fade-to-white): 2017
- [Ultraviolet Break of Day](https://marcuswendt.io/works/ultraviolet-break-of-day-exploration): 2017. Featured in Colossal, My Modern Met, BOOOOOOOM, Fubiz
- [Spectra-2](https://marcuswendt.io/works/spectra-2): A half digital, half natural landscape of optical phenomena, 2023
- [Spectra-3](https://marcuswendt.io/works/spectra-3): Lux, 2023. Featured in Creative Applications
- [Quasar](https://marcuswendt.io/works/quasar): Virtual Reality Sculptures, 2022
- [Communion](https://marcuswendt.io/works/communion): Hundreds of generative creatures, celebrating life in a massive communion, 2023. Featured in It's Nice That, Creative Applications
- [Muse](https://marcuswendt.io/works/muse): A flood of inspirational images, remixed into an ocean of colour, 2023
- [System Aesthetics](https://marcuswendt.io/works/system-aesthetics): Studies of form, structure and behaviour of Artificial Intelligence algorithms, 2022. Featured in Creative Applications

## Explorations

Ultra-distance bikepacking races and remote expeditions, single-stage, multi-stage and self-supported.

- [All explorations](https://marcuswendt.io/explorations)
- [Taurus Mountain Race](https://www.themountainraces.cc/taurus-mountain-race): Upcoming, Turkey, Oct 2026, 1460 km
- Hellenic Mountain Race: Greece, May 2026, scratched (mechanical)
- [Further: Lostways](https://www.strava.com/activities/17820375326): United Kingdom, Mar 2026, 753 km, 5th overall
- Gran Guache: Audax Trail 2025: Spain, Nov 2025, 900 km
- The Rift 200k: Iceland, Jul 2025, 195 km
- WalesDURO 2025: United Kingdom, Jul 2025, 312 km

## Publicity

Public record: 30 talks; 18 exhibitions; 34 press; 8 teaching; 10 awards.

- [Talks, exhibitions, press and awards](https://marcuswendt.io/publicity)
- [Frame Magazine — What is AI's place in the world of luxury retail?](https://frameweb.com/article/technology/what-is-ais-place-in-the-world-of-luxury-retail)
- [The Future Laboratory — New Codes of Luxury: The Longevity Effect](https://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/reports/new-codes-of-luxury/the-longevity-effect)
- [The Brand Identity — Inside FIELD.IO, the studio that thinks and builds at the same time](https://the-brandidentity.com/interview/inside-field-io-the-studio-that-thinks-and-builds-at-the-same-time)
- [Futurespaces — Creative Intelligence for a Living World](https://futurespaces.substack.com/p/creative-intelligence-for-a-living)
- [brand eins 09/2023 — Nie wieder doof](https://www.brandeins.de/products/brand-eins-09-2023)
- [Frame Magazine — What is AI's place in the world of luxury retail?](/publicity/2026-frame-magazine)
- [The Future Laboratory — New Codes of Luxury: The Longevity Effect](/publicity/2026-the-future-laboratory)
- [The Brand Identity](/publicity/2026-the-brand-identity)

## Status

A living feed of what Marcus is doing right now: training, speaking, writing, travelling, interview, listening, racing, appreciating, reading, researching, quotes, eating, working, experiencing.

- [Status feed](https://marcuswendt.io/status)

## About

Biography, vita and studio background. Born in Schwedt (Oder) in 1982, MA from Kunsthochschule Kassel, member of Alliance Graphique Internationale, based in London.

- [About Marcus Wendt](https://marcuswendt.io/about)

## Contact

Direct: hello@marcuswendt.io. Project enquiries via FIELD: enquiries@field.io

- [Contact](https://marcuswendt.io/contact)

## Studio

Marcus is the founder and CEO of FIELD.IO, the creative-technology studio behind most of his commercial work.

- [FIELD.IO](https://field.io)