Lauren Lee McCarthy Lecture

Name: Lauren Lee McCarthy Lecture
Start: 2026-03-31T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-31T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Art Institute of Chicago

Schedule

Tue Mar 31 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL

Join us for a lecture by artist Lauren Lee McCarthy followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
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.
Presented in partnership with the William Bronson and Grayce Slovet Mitchell Lecture Series in SAIC’s Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public.
Learn more at saic.edu/vap
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access
Image Credit: Lauren Lee McCarthy, LAUREN. Photo by Jane Kratochvil, Sebastian Bach, courtesy of Ford Foundation Gallery