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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
creative capital logo
sundance institute logo
sundance offical selection
idfa doclab competition for digital storytelling
idfa official doclab selection

Surrogate Performance


Surrogate began with a proposal: To carry someone else’s baby for nine months while they use an app to monitor and control me. The parents could decide what I eat, what I do, when I sleep — having complete control over the body in which their baby is growing. Collaborating with a prospective parent, I pursued the remote-control surrogacy with help from fertility doctors, surrogates, doulas, midwives, geneticists. For more background on the Surrogate project, please visit this link.

Surrogate is a body of work centered around issues of reproductive technology and bodily autonomy. One of the outputs of this series is an interactive live performance, a one woman show, that takes the audience through the journey of becoming a remote-controlled surrogate.








Photography by Boudewijn Bollmann (MU, Eindhoven), Silke Briel (AdK, Berlin), Gary Leonard (Honor Fraser, LA), Casey Horsfield (Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne). Cinematography by Gabriel Noguez.

The in progress tour has included

MASS MoCA (North Adams, MA)
MU (Eindhoven)
Akademie der Künste (Berlin)
EAT_Works (NYC)
Honor Fraser Gallery (LA)
Australian Center for Contemporary Arts (Melbourne)
Fusebox Festival (Austin)
Piggot Theater, Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

With support from

Creative Capital Award
United States Artist Fellowship
MacDowell Fellowship
Sundance Institute New Frontier Story Lab
Sundance Institute Art of Practice Fellowship
Pioneer Works Tech Residency
KW Institute for Contemporary Art