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Lauren Lee McCarthy: Tuesday, March 31, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Join us for a lecture by artist Lauren Lee McCarthy followed by an audience Q&A.
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She creates performances inviting viewers to engage. To remote-control her dates. To be followed. To welcome her in as their human smart home. To attend a party hosted by artificial intelligence. McCarthy is the creator of p5.js, an open-source creative coding platform that prioritizes inclusion and access with more than 10 million users worldwide. She is also a professor at University of California, Los Angeles Design Media Arts. McCarthy’s work has been recognized by Creative Capital, United States Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sundance, Eyebeam, MacDowell, Pioneer Works, and Ars Electronica, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Barbican Centre, London; Ars Electronica, Austria; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai; and Seoul Museum of Art.
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
Image Credit: Lauren Lee McCarthy
“What does it take to feel autonomy these days?”: Lauren Lee McCarthy on “Auto”
Joanne Hong | LACMA UN FRAMED | June 23, 2025
Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveillance
Renée Reizman | Hyperallergic | May 8, 2024
Media Artist Lauren Lee McCarthy Confronts the Boundaries of Bio-Surveillance in New Exhibit
Carla Schleiffer | UC San Diego Today | January 8, 2024
Debut: Lauren Lee McCarthy’s “Muted”
Willa Köerner | Pioneer Works | October 12, 2021
New UCSD Exhibit Explores Power, Anxiety & Spit
Amelia Rodriguez | San Diego Magazine | March 15, 2024
Crisis, A Critical Imaginary
Charlotte Kent | The Brooklyn Rail | November 2023
Deutsche Telekom and Kunstmuseum Bonn initiate Human AI Art Award
René Bresgen | Deutsche Telekom | August 8, 2024
‘Blurring the Lines’ exhibition explores AI’s intersection with human creativity
Julia Hodson | News at Indiana University | October 10, 2024
The Transparent World
Magdalena Kröner | Los Angeles Review of Books | May 17, 2022
Whose Interests Does AI Serve
Cassie Packard | ArtReview | December 5, 2023
Between Tech & Art: An Interview with Lauren Lee McCarthy
Vallejo, Catalina, and Lauren Lee McCarthy | Just Tech. Social Science Research Council | March 1, 2022
Beyond Automation: Lauren Lee McCarthy on Creating an Open Future Through Connection
Anika Meier | The AI Art Magazine | November 2025
You Can Say
Lauren Lee McCarthy | antiAtlas Journal, vol. 6 | June 28, 2023
Full interview with Lauren Lee McCarthy, visiting artist at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Bhumikorn Kongtaveelert | Stanford Arts | April 18, 2023
Lauren McCarthy*
Corina L. Apostol, Nato Thompson (eds.) | Chapter from: Making Another World Possible, Routledge | p. 2 | October 10, 2019
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As for Protocols
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Explicitly--or not--protocols determine much of what we do. Far exceeding traditional notions of "good manners," protocols are systems of language that regulate how we relate to each other, to our cultural, social, and political environments, and to the technologies that create them. The first publication to look at protocols across a wide range of disciplines, As for Protocols brings together contributions by twenty-two international artists, writers, scholars, musicians, architects, and scientists who explore protocols across various fields, foregrounding opportunities for creating new protocols that are inclusive and equitable. Through essays, artworks, interviews, and scores, the book speaks to protocols as practice--neither conventional mannerisms nor abstract concepts, but material processes, relational affinities, shared responsibilities, and mutual care. Edited by Re'al Christian, Carin Kuoni, and Eriola Pira, an opening score by Raven Chacon and contributions by Salome Asega, Carolina Caycedo with Lupita Limón Corrales, Raven Chacon, Jesse Chun, Asia Dorsey, Taraneh Fazeli and Cannach MacBride, Pablo Helguera, Emmanuel Iduma, Mary Maggic, Shannon Mattern, V. Mitch McEwen with Nadir Jeevanjee, Rashaun Mitchell with Silas Riener, Romy Opperman, Rasheedah Phillips, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson with Maria Hupfield, Ultra-red with Robert Sember, and Underground Resistance.
Digital Capture: Southern California and the Pixel-based Image World
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Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
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The most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary video and moving-image art from the last decade Video has never been more prevalent in contemporary art than it is today. At a time when moving images have saturated daily life, artists continue to draw new possibilities from the medium. From live-action documentation to hand-drawn animation, participatory video-game technologies, and computer-generated imagery,Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art presents over 850 images from more than 100 artists. Discover recent work by established names as well as rising stars in the contemporary art world, all nominated by a global panel of high-profile art-world figures. Richly illustrated with multiple examples of works by each artist, including stills and installation views,Vitamin V is the first book in Phaidon's celebrated Vitamin series to focus on the moving image. An insightful essay by renowned scholar Erika Balsom surveys the history of video art from the 1960s until today.
Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).