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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

Saliva Retreat





“Saliva Retreat challenges the norm of surrendering bodily substances to external entities. The installation is set in a saliva bank, a lounge space where visitors explore the liberatory potential of saliva exchange, colloquially known as “spit swapping.” The film provides a nuanced exploration of a retreat held in Los Angeles, in which a choreographed play of intimate exchanges sparks conversations on autonomy, data privacy, and intimacy. Through vignettes, the participants explore various forms of exchange and the significance, for them, of preserving something for the future.” — Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, curated by Nora N. Khan and Andrea Bellini

View film in the virtual EPOCH exhibition ︎
Scenography conceived by FormaFantasma
David Leonard, Director of Film
Gabriel Noguez, Cinematographer & Editor
Sean Rowry, Second Camera
Matthew Sanchez, Sound Recordist
Evan Arnold, Sound Mix
Antonio Noguez, Production Assistant

Parag K. Mital, Host
Chelly Jin, Stage Manager
Antigoni Tsakaroouloulus and Isabella Lee, Production Assistants
Eunice Choi, Saliva Craft Facilitator
Boaz Sender, Saliva Software Developer & Consent Co-Designer
Taeyoon Choi and Laya, Saliva Yoga Facilitators
Kim Ye, Yasaman Sheri, Connor Cook, Saliva Panelists

Saliva Retreat Participants: Aya, Ramie Abu-Zahra, Abi, Alice Bucknell, Siena Chiang, Eunice Choi, Taeyoon Choi, Connor Cook, Behnaz Farahi, Jim Fetterley, Alex UF, Huntrezz, Chelly Jin, Isabella Lee, Parag K. Mital, Laya, So Sun Park, Casey Reas, Boaz Sender, Yasaman Sheri, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Sammie Veeler, Xin Xin, Kim Ye, Qianqian Ye

With support from Stanford Human-Centered AI, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and UCLA Social Software. Photography by Mathilda Olmi © Centre d’Art contemporain Genève and David Leonard.