Ronen Tanchum (b. 1987) is a post-national contemporary artist who builds computational public artworks in which machine perception, environmental data and human presence continually reshape the image. In 2015 he founded his studio, Phenomena Labs, based in Tel Aviv, which produces, installs and maintains his large-scale and site-specific work.
Before turning fully to art, Tanchum worked in visual effects and interactive media, including contributions to Tove Lo's music video Glad He's Gone, nominated for Best Music Video at the 2020 Grammy Awards, and to the film The Walk, shortlisted for Academy Award consideration in visual effects for 2015-2016. That background fed into APEX, a 2021 Art Blocks Curated series inspired by an experience of walking across a frozen landscape toward a bright, sunlit horizon, an encounter Tanchum has said “ignited the idea to start programming APEX”.
