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Lauren Lee McCarthy


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LAUREN works
  1. LAUREN
  2. SOMEONE
  3. LAUREN Portable
  4. Exhibition: What can I do for you?
  5. Exhibition: You Can Say
  6. The Changing Room
  7. Waking Agents
  8. I.A. Suzie

Saliva works
  1. Exhibition: Bodily Autonomy (Saliva Bar)
  2. Saliva Retreat
  3. Saliva
  4. Are You the Perfect Specimen?
  5. Testing

Surrogate works
  1. Surrogate
  2. Exhibition: Data Relations
  3. Exhibition: Reproduction Otherwise
  4. Surrogate Performance
  5. Womb Walk

Autonomous works
  1. Voice In My Head
  2. Driverless
  3. Unlearning Language
  4. HOST
  5. Seeing Voices

Muted works
  1. Exhibition: I Heard Talking Is Dangerous
  2. Muted
  3. I heard TALKING IS DANGEROUS
  4. Good Night
  5. Good Morning
  6. What do you want me to say?
  7. Sleepover
  8. Later Date
  9. Appreciate You

Other recent works
  1. Follower
  2. Social Turkers
  3. Vibe Check
  4. I’m glad you asked
  5. Autoreply
  6. pplkpr
  7. us+

Teaching & pedagogy
  1. p5.js
  2. Open Source Software Toolkits for the Arts Report
  3. Web We Want (W3C TPAC)
  4. Smarter Home
  5. Network Media
  6. Performing User
  7. Senior Capstone
  8. Disability, Design, and the Web
  9. Interactivity
  10. Conversation & Computation
  11. Social Hacking
  12. Critical APIs
  13. Computational Media
  14. Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts (Free online course)

Archive
  1. Beyond the Breakdown
  2. How We Act Together
  3. Wake Words
  4. Friend Crawl
  5. Welcomer
  6. M/WITM
  7. The Changing Room: Brisbane
  8. Social Soul
  9. You Can Say
  10. Tools for Improved Social Interacting
  11. Inactive Account Manager
  12. Facebook Mood Manipulator
  13. LOVEINT
  14. SCRIPT

Mark

Data Relations


Performance installation featuring Surrogate and LAUREN
Exhibition curated by Miriam Kelly and Shelley McSpedden
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
December 2022–March 2023


Thin plastic beams connect into a large rectangle, forming a structure that supports a roll of white carpet, hanging off to the right. Within this frame, an opaque window hangs at eye level. On the carpet, two white pillows lounge in front of a screen, with a silver trolley just behind. In the background, another roll of carpet unfolds onto the floor, with a cerulean table and chair alongside it.
Reaching up from the floor, white poles cross in a wide grid, evenly spaced to form six rectangular cells. Two pale prosthetic bellies hang from the bottom rung, tear drop shaped and secured by their red and purple straps. Above and to the right, a thin screen is framed and secured to the structure, playing a video of a woman in a lurid magenta dress standing against a rocky ochre landscape. One hand is on her protruding stomach, one hand holds an apple to her mouth.











Design in collaboration with Ben Evans James
Images courtesy Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Photographs: Andrew Curtis, Lucy Foster, Casey Horsfield