Artists

Lauren Lee McCarthy

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News

Spilling Out of the Screen

Outland’s guest editor introduces an issue about performance artists who create relationships of intimacy and care to shore up the gaps left by technology.

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Criticism

Shock Therapy

Lauren Lee McCarthy’s art takes on surveillance capitalism with the shock effects of radical performance and an equally radical politics of care.

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Conversations

Sarah Friend & Lauren Lee McCarthy

How do technological structures reflect human relationships of obligation and trust?

Essays produced in a writing workshop hosted by Outland and Art Blocks offer new perspectives on art, code, and web3. The Generative Art Issue

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