WHERE PAST ECHOES BECOME FUTURE VISIONS

Welcome to The Lost Futures - a Sydney based performance project pushing the boundaries of tech-driven creativity, live innovations, and creative augmentation.

THE LOST FUTURES

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NEW SINGLE: BLESSED TO EXCESS

BLESSED TO EXCESS, our latest single, is a maximalist and sardonic take on the glamorization of the pursuit of fame, money and power.

We use a hybrid of human-led music composition, production design, and machine driven GenAI for the visual and auditory components of this work.

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THE CONTRACT (2026)

SYNTHOGRAPHIC SERIES

The Lost Futures is a bit of a weird one.

We are at once, a band, a multimedia art-performance project, and a creative studio.

One night, we could be doing a live electronic music set around Sydney’s inner west, the next we could be working on a campaign for brands like Crocs, Uber and Lenovo.

We believe in blurring the lines between the creative process and executable work - for us, the innovation, experiments and spirited approach to creative development is integral in anything we do.

We use every tool at our disposal to create our desired result - and we always lead with human led creativity first.

Stylish young woman wearing purple sunglasses and a black outfit, surrounded by floating planets or bubbles, with a red background.

A surreal digital art piece featuring a woman's face with eyes closed inside a metallic ring, set against a pink and purple cloudy sky background. Surrounding the face are colorful geometric shapes, textures, and a camera, creating an abstract and futuristic composition.

A recent set from The Lost Futures, ‘Conditional Variables’, is a synthographic (AI assisted) multimedia series that explores time, connection, identity, and the relationship between humans and machines.

Released on Sedition Worldwide March 5

A surreal image of a human eye with a long, extending eyebrow that curves into a wave form and a curled seashell on a flat surface.

Artwork featuring a white, face-like sculpture against a pastel background, with a stack of colorful books and a small, abstract sculpture on the right.

A young woman with curly blonde hair looking surprised or concerned, in an aquarium or aquatic exhibit, with two large screens displaying fish in the background, and a man in a white shirt standing nearby.

The Lost Futures also recently collaborated with Lenovo and NYC based SuperHeroes/JIMMY Agency to develop the hybrid multimedia works, ‘Dream Machine’ + ‘Sunday Scaries’‍ ‍

This piece, a part of Lenovo’s‘Feeling It’ campaign, explored the fusion of human creativity and AI through our signature ‘Cyberdelic Hyperloops’.

Abstract digital artwork featuring multiple eye symbols and bright, colorful energy bursts around a central figure with a raised arm, set against a dark background with screens displaying eye images.

Young woman with short hair and glasses stretching in a black dress on a textured black floor.

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Surreal collage featuring a woman’s face, a disassembled eye, a small owl, a snail shell, and dirt, creating an abstract and artistic scene.

A surreal and cosmic scene featuring floating pink hands, a large glowing blue orb, and a circular portal with plant roots and electrical lightning, set against a starry night sky with pink flowers at the bottom.

Multiple TV screens displaying a man's face with a competitive expression, connected with cables, in an industrial-style room with large windows, with five people behind them, each with an edited head that has flames on top, all smiling and looking a

A surreal digital artwork of a large purple and pink flower with glowing elements, surrounded by colorful rocks and mystical symbols with a dark, starry background.

Abstract digital artwork featuring colorful, surreal elements including geometric shapes, human silhouettes, a person's portrait, sliced oranges, and vibrant chaotic patterns with neon colors and diverse textures.

A woman with curly blonde hair and blue eyes, dressed in a shiny, iridescent top, is sitting and looking surprised or confused. A man in white shirt and beige tie with hands in pockets is standing behind her, in front of multiple colorful screens dis

A young girl in a white dress interacts with a wall of colorful digital screens displaying abstract eye images in a dark room.

ABOUT THE LOST FUTURES

The Lost Futures is an innovative art, film, and music performance project by Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist Luke Burton.

Blending machine-assisted workflows with experimental production pipelines, The Lost Futures is redefining the role of technology in creative practice.

It leads the industry in developing and deploying machine-augmented methods to reshape the intersection of performance, philosophy, and visual media.

For our full bio, head over to our ABOUT page

A person operating electronic music equipment at a synth concert with a large digital art display of an abstract face on the screen behind them.

NEWEST MUSIC RELEASE

‘FOUND PASTS’ Vol. 1 (1999-2014)

This collection is a deep dive into The Lost Futures past works, spanning ambient, synthpop, experimental, and more.

These tracks were created in various home studios over the years and represent different points TLF’s evolving creative journey.

Some of these compositions were buried on hard drives, others lost in past projects—until now.

Check out the album via link to Bandcamp

‘THE CYBERDELIC ESCAPE FROM THE SELF REPLICATING GOBLIN COSSACKS’ (SERIES, 2023)

Sublimation dye transfer on ChromaLuxe aluminum plates

From the artist + Lost Futures founder Luke Burton:

“My great, great grandfather, Benjamin Bresinskie B. 1857, in Belarus/Russia, was born into a family of Cossack military aristocracy (and criminal underground).

Deeply dissatisfied with his fated life and his burning need to become an artist, he fled his family in the night and into the cold Belarusian winter.

To find shelter with limited options, he found a horse in a creek, gutted it and slept in it to survive. Later he would flee to Austria where he met my great, great grandmother, Ermestina, an Austrian Jew.

They moved to Australia in 1904 and became naturalised citizens. Benjamin would fulfill his wish and became an artist/set designer and decorator for Melbourne theatres.

This work seeks to represent the phantasms that haunt the ancestral memory, the pursuit and the dread that Benjamin must have felt facing the certain death if he was recaptured by his family. And the desperate pursuit to fulfill an existential purpose that cannot be ignored.

In the ancestral memory, the phantasms become a byproduct of the ontological experience of the fulfilment of purpose. Diluted across generations, the phantasms become operators of the cyberdelic medulla oblongata, and take shape in a free association.”

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