Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is a 2020 Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellow, 2020 Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellow, 2019 Creative Capital Grantee, and has been a resident at Eyebeam, New York City; ZERO1, San Francisco; Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (US); Autodesk, Mill Valley (US); Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University; and Ars Electronica, Linz (AT). Her work SOMEONE was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica and the Japan Media Arts Social Impact Award, and her work LAUREN was awarded the IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction. Lauren’s work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as the Barbican Centre, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (CH), ACM SIGGRAPH, in various locations; Onassis Cultural Center New York; IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam; Seoul Museum of Art; and the Japan Media Arts Festival. She is the creator of p5.js, an open-source programming language for learning creative expression through code online. She helps direct the Processing Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields—and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. Lauren is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts, Los Angeles.
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is a 2020 Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellow, 2020 Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellow, 2019 Creative Capital Grantee, and has been a resident at Eyebeam, New York City; ZERO1, San Francisco; Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (US); Autodesk, Mill Valley (US); Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University; and Ars Electronica, Linz (AT). Her work SOMEONE was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica and the Japan Media Arts Social Impact Award, and her work LAUREN was awarded the IDFA DocLab Award for Immersive Non-Fiction. Lauren’s work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as the Barbican Centre, London; Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH); Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel (CH), ACM SIGGRAPH, in various locations; Onassis Cultural Center New York; IDFA DocLab, Amsterdam; Seoul Museum of Art; and the Japan Media Arts Festival. She is the creator of p5.js, an open-source programming language for learning creative expression through code online. She helps direct the Processing Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields—and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. Lauren is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts, Los Angeles.