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Selected Awards and Grants
2021
United States Artist Fellowship
IDFA DocLab Creative Response Support Grant
2020
Ars Electronica Golden Nica Interactive Art+
Ars Electronica STARTS Prize Honorary Mention
Eyebeam Rapid Response Fellowship
Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship
Women at Sundance Adobe Fellowship
Social Impact Award. Japan Media Arts Festival
Andy Warhol Foundation for Contemporary Arts Curatorial Fellowship
Getty Foundation Pacific Standard Time Research Grant
2019
Creative Capital Award
NEA Art Works Grant (Processing Foundation)
Mozilla MOSS Partners Grant, Mozilla Foundation
Google Focused Research Award, Google Artist and Machine Intelligence
CLTC Cybersecurity Arts Grant, University of California, Berkeley
STRP ACT Award, STRP Festival, Eindhoven, NL.
ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Residency, San Francisco, California / Gwangju, South Korea
Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
Dean’s Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2018
Journalism 360 Challenge Award, Google News Lab, Knight Foundation, and Online News Association
Knight Foundation Grant for Processing Foundation Node Cities
Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, Digital Communities Category
Metal Liverpool Artist Residency, Liverpool, UK
Mozilla Open Leaders Program
Harvestworks Residency, New York, NY
Art Works Grant (Processing Foundation)
Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Los Angeles
2017
Sundance New Frontier Fellowship, Sundance Institute
IDFA DocLab Award Immersive Non-Fiction, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, NL
Academie Schloss Solitude & ZKM Web Residency, Stuttgart, Germany
International Kunstverein Luxembourg Residency
Faculty Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, CA,
Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Los Angeles
Confucius Institute Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Arts Initiative Award, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
HOW International Design Awards Merit Winner (with Sosolimited and PAOM), New York, NY
Communication Arts Interactive Award (with Sosolimited and PAOM), New York, NY
Innovation by Design Finalist (with Sosolimited and PAOM), New York, NY
2016
Ars Electronica Transmit³ Residency, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
ADC Young Guns Award Winner, Art Directors Club, New York, NY
Share Prize Honorary Mention, Share Festival, Treviso, Italy
2015
Stochastic Labs Residency, Berkeley, CA
Dean’s Faculty Grant, New York University
Lifelogging Residency. Science Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2014
CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Residency, Carnegie Mellon University
ITP Research Residency, New York University Interactive Telecommunications
Autodesk Pier 9 Artist Residency, Autodesk, San Francisco, CA
2013
NYSCA Independent Artist Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
RISD 2050 Fund Research Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
Share Prize Honorary Mention, Share Festival, Treviso, Italy
Rhizome Commission, Jury Award
Rhizome Commission, Member Award
Eyebeam Artist Residency, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center
Processing Fellowship, The Processing Foundation, New York, NY
Intel Research Grant, Intel Labs, Portland, OR
Core Design Award (Sosolimited), New York, NY
2012
Elsewhere Residency, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro, NC
2011
Jury Recommended Work, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
UCLA Dean’s Scholarship, University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA University Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
Awesome Foundation Fellowship Grant, Boston, MA
2010
Twitter Artist in Residence. Brooklyn Art Museum
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions and Performance Events
The Changing Room. Ogden Contemporary Arts Center. Ogden, Utah
Set the Room. Brownie Project. Shanghai, China
Stay put / idle. panke.gallery. Berlin, Germany
Follower. Coreana Museum of Art. Seoul, South Korea
Smarter Home / 더 똑똑한 집. Gwangju Cultural Foundation. Gwangju, South Korea
Follower Performance. Fotomuseum Winterthur. Winterthur, Switzerland
LAUREN Performance. Living Room Light Exchange. San Francisco, CA
24 hour HOST. MU Artspace, Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven, Amsterdam
LAUREN. MU Artspace. Eindhoven, Netherlands
Follower. International Kunstverein Luxembourg. Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
LAUREN Overnight. IDFA Doclab. Amsterdam, Netherlands / Los Angeles, CA
How We Act Together. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. With Kyle McDonald. Frankfurt, Germany The Changing Room. Queensland University of Technology. Brisbane, Australia
Friend or Follow. OPEN Gallery. Boston, MA
Follower Debut. Stochastic Labs. Berkeley, CA
Social Galaxy. Samsung 837. With Kyle McDonald. New York, NY
Friend Crawl. Electric Objects / Online. New York, NY
Crowdpilot. Rhizome Frontpage Exhibition. New York, NY
Social Turkers. Intel Research Labs / Online. Portland, OR
InterACT. Broad Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions, Performances, and Screenings
2021
The Best Inventions: Fifteen Years of the Web.Art from Share Festival. Share Festival. Torino, Italy.
New Public Festival. Civic Signals. Feeling Seen Being Watched.
AI: More Than Human. World Museum Liverpool. Liverpool, UK. .
Make Room. Los Angeles, CA.
Sundance Festival. Online. Park City, UT.
2019
Far Away, So Close. Gallatin Galleries. New York, NY
We=Link2.0 Sideways. Chronos Art Center. Shanghai, China
IDFA DocLab. Amsterdam, NL
Manipulations. Institute for Contemporary Ideas and Art. Göteborg, Sweden
Unsound Festival. Liquid Architecture. Virtual
HOT STEAM. MIT Museum. Cambridge, MA
Digital Art Festival Taipei. Taipei, Taiwan
Falling Up. Reriddle Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Returning the Gaze. Ars Electronica @ Keplers Gardens. Los Angeles, CA
Ars Electronica Festival. Ars Electronica Center. Linz, Austria
Japan Media Arts Festival. Tokyo, Japan
Breaking News? How the smartphone changed journalism. The Media Majlis, Northwestern University in Qatar. Doha, Qatar
Understanding AI. Ars Electronica Center. Linz, Austria
Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies). Museum für Neue Kunst. Breisgau, Germany
Singularity. ARTE LUCE. Berlin, Germany
Affective Prospective. MediaLab/UnB. Brasília, Brazil
Post Hoc. Online. May 2020
Women in Tech: Reimagining Cybersecurity for All. Bechtel Center, UC Berkeley, California
Streaming. gallery@calit2. San Diego, CA
Refiguring Binaries. Centro de Cultura Digital. Mexico City, Mexico
Real Feelings. HeK, House of Electronic Arts Basel. Basel, Switzerland
How to make a Paradise. Frankfurter Kunstverein. Frankfurt, Germany
Art Will Save Us. Berlin, Germany
Selphish / L’exposition de soi. Mécènes du Sud. Montpellier, France
Algotaylorism. Mulhouse Kunsthalle. Mulhouse, France
Algotaylorism: Rage Against The Machine. Espace Multimédia Gantner. Bourogne, France
Artefact 2020: Alone Together. STUK Art Center. Leuven, Belgium
Mind the Deep - Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation. Ming Contemporary Art Museum. Shanghai, China
She-nvisible. Print Screen Festival. Tel Aviv, Israel
Deus Ex Machina. Art and Artificial Intelligence. LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Gijón, Spain
Meteoric. Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Strange Temporalities: Out of the Box. Ars Electronica. Linz, Austria
Mozilla Festival. Ravensbourne University. London, UK
AI: More Than Human. The Barbican Centre. London, UK
Smarter Home / 더 똑똑한 집 (American Arts Incubator). International Symposium of Electronic Arts. Asia Cultural Center. Gwangju, South Korea
Entangled Realities. Haus der elektronischen Künste. Basel, Switzerland
DE JA VU. Today Art Museum. Beijing, China
GETXOPHOTO. Bilbao, Spain
Future of Privacy. Dublin, Ireland
See and Be Seen: Picturing Notoriety. Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida
STRP Festival. Eindhoven, NL
Refiguring the Future. Hunter Art Galleries. New York, NY
Forging the Gods. Transfer Gallery #ONCANAL. New York, NY
Rubbings for $20; Bootlegs for $100. SPRING/BREAK Art Fair
Printemps Numérique. Kanal - Centre Pompidou. Brussels, Belgium
For Real. April 2019. Senne for Art Brussels
Vienna Biennale 2019: “Brave New Virtues Shaping our Digital World. MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts. Vienna, Austria
Immortal on Screen. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Taichung City, Taiwan
2018
Counting Digital Sheep. Hogeschool Avans. Den Bosch, Netherlands.
Intimacy. Science Gallery Dublin. Dublin, Ireland.
Microwave Media Arts Festival. Hong Kong.
Work. Art Quarter Budapest. Budapest, Hungary.
Seoul Mediacity Biennale. Entire; having no element left out, complete in degree. Seoul, South Korea.
Clustering. Artificial Knowing. Los Angeles, CA.
SITUATIONS. Fotomuseum Winterthur. Winterthur, Switzerland.
Refiguring the Future: Netgain Exhibition. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Chicago, IL.
FACELESS. Gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum. Berlin, Germany.
Open Codes. ZKM | Center for Art and Media. Karlsruhe, Germany.
Electric Women. Online Exhibition.
Lost in the Net Dream. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Taichung City, Taiwan.
ZER01 Festival. La Rochelle, France.
Counting Digital Sheep. Tetem. Enschede, Netherlands.
Authenticate. Cypress College Gallery. Cypress, CA.
Hard To Read: Lovelace. Navel. Los Angeles, CA.
tech (in)dependent. Pierro Gallery. Newark, NJ.
Otherly Space/Knowledge. ACT Festival. Asian Cultural Center. Gwangju, South Korea.
In Our Present Condition... MIT Dean’s Gallery. Cambridge, MA.
Neotopia: Data and Humanity. Art Center Nabi. Seoul, South Korea.
2017
Day for Night. Barbara Jordan Post Office. Houston, TX.
Materalising the Internet. MU Artspace. Eindhoven, Amsterdam.
Vulnerability. Young Projects Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Uncharted Rituals. IDFA Doclab. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Radical Networks. Chem Creative. New York, NY.
Dear Diary: A Celebration of Diaries and their Digital Descendants. Somerset House. London, England.
Sundance World Building Showcase. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA.
First I Was Afraid…. Dorsky Gallery. Long Island City, NY.
Feminist Climate Change. Ars Electronica Center. Linz, Austria.
NODE Forum for the Digital Arts Biennial. Frankfurt, Germany.
I Dread To Think. Boston Center for the Arts. Boston, MA.
Body Politic. OPEN Gallery. Boston, MA.
AppDate. Literatur-Kunst-Medien Universität Konstanz. Konstanz, Germany.
Blindspot. Design Matters Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Hybrids. Onassis Cultural Centre. Athens, Greece.
2016
Geek Girl. Creative Industries Precinct at QUT. Brisbane, Australia.
Elastic Reality. IDFA Doclab. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
State of Emotion – The Sentimental Machine. STATE Festival. Berlin, Germany.
Radical Networks. Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. Brooklyn, NY.
Eastern Bloc Sight and Sound Festival. Vancouver, Canada.
TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read). B4BEL4B Gallery. Oakland, CA.
Social Computing. Centro Studi Città di Foligno. Foligno, Italy.
House Guests. Share Festival. Treviso, Italy.
Social Galaxy. Samsung Galaxy Studio. Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Social Discovery. Bangkok, Thailand.
2015
Happenings for SET. DOOSAN Gallery. New York, NY.
Radical Networks. MAGNET NYU Poly. Brooklyn, NY.
Wrapped in Code – The Future of the Informed Body. NODE15 Forum. Frankfurt, Germany.
Lifelogging. Science Gallery Dublin. Dublin, Ireland.
Terms of Service. Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts. Grand Rapids, MI.
Social Soul. SXSW Festival. Austin, TX.
Your Friend, Correspondence and Collaboration. Gallery Factory. Seoul, South Korea.
Stillness In Motion. TED Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
Device Art. Ars Electronica Center. Linz, Austria.
2014
Meditating Technology. CRUX Space. Philadelphia, PA.
Eyebeam Annual Showcase. Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. New York, NY.
Social Soul. TED Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
CSIS Data Chandelier. With Sosolimited. Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Washington, DC. Permanent Installation opened January 2014.
2013
Real Time | Real Space. Share Festival. Treviso, Italy.
New Cinema. Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. New York, NY.
God Mode. 319 Scholes. Brooklyn, NY.
Collision Collective. Boston Cyber Arts Gallery. Boston, MA.
Patterned by Nature. North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Raleigh, NC. Permanent Installation. With Sosolimited.
2012
Northern Spark Festival. Minneapolis, MN. Collaboration with David Wicks.
Energy of the Nation. Installation at the London Eye for 2012 Olympics. London, England. With Sosolimited.
2011
THINK IBM Centennial Exhibit. Lincoln Center, With Sosolimited and Mirada.
FILE Festival. São Paulo, Brazil. New York, NY.
Impractically, Practical. Take My Picture Gallery. Los Angeles, CA.
Anatomy Riot. Alexandria Hotel. Los Angeles, CA.
Tell Them Nothing…. New White Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA.
Japan Media Arts Festival. The National Art Center. Tokyo, Japan.
2010
Mindshare. The Downtown Independent. Los Angeles, CA.
WIRED Store. New York, NY.
#TheSocialGraph. Outpost Gallery. Bushwick, NY.
LACMA MUSE. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA.
Conflux Festival. New York, NY.
TouchPoint: Haptic Exchange Between Digits. SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, Los Angeles Convention Center. Los Angeles, CA.
Teaching
2016+ Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Design Media Arts
2014-16 Full-Time Faculty, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
2013-14 Adjunct Assistant Professor, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
2011-13 Adjunct Faculty, RISD Department of Digital+Media
Education
2011 MFA Design Media Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
2008 BS Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 BS Art and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selected Press
The Guardian. “Let me into your home: artist Lauren McCarthy on becoming Alexa for a day.” Dominic Rushe.
Los Angeles Times. “Alexa, meet Lauren: L.A. artist turns her apartment into an experiment in artificial intelligence.” Sharon Mizota.
CLOT Magazine. “LAUREN McCARTHY, the coder among the wild beasts.” Lidia Raoi.
Ars Technica. “Artist transforms herself into a virtual assistant and obeys your commands.” Dorothy Santos.
Observer. “Artist Lauren McCarthy Takes on Amazon’s Alexa Like John Henry Did the Steam Engine.” Brady Dale.
Kill Screen. “Lauren McCarthy Takes on Silicon Valley Optimism.” David Wolinsky.
The Verge. “Giving your love life to Google Glass and the hive mind.” Tim Maly.
Interviews and Podcasts
State of the Art Podcast, Episode 29: The Art of Social Relationships, Lauren Lee McCarthy.
Bloomberg. ART + TECHNOLOGY: Episode 5: Lauren McCarthy, Has data destroyed privacy?”
Mozilla Blog.“Creating art with open source.” Interview with Abigail Cabunoc Mayes.
Team Human Podcast. “Live at Gray Area Night Two Part Two.” Interview with Douglas Rushkoff.
Team Human Podcast. “Live at Gray Area Night Two: Lauren McCarthy.” Interview with Douglas Rushkoff.
Request for Commits Podcast. “Design, Software, and Open Source.” Podcast interview with Nadia Eghbal and Mikeal Rogers.
Hyperallergic. “Want a Smart Home Assistant? Invite This Artist to Watch You for Three Days Instead.” Interview with Hrag Vartanian.
Y-Combinator Podcast. “Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home’s Brain.” Interview with Craig Cannon.
Especially Big Data Podcast. “Let’s hear it for the girls!” Interview with Alex Geller.
Ars Electronica Blog. “Lauren McCarthy Provokes Fellow Feelings in Her Very Own Way.” Interview with Markus Scholl.