Kristin Lucas
Monday, April 16

Kristin Lucas is a Brooklyn-based artist working with video, installation, performance, and the internet. Her work addresses the complexity of her relationship with automation and the psychological effects of rapidly spreading technology. Her work often comments on the complicated responses our bodies undergo while interacting with technology, including the hazards of long-time exposure to electro-magnetic fields and the anxiety we experience when playing video games.

Since 1996 Lucas has participated in festivals and exhibitions in the US and abroad including Young and Restless, The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The 1997 Whitney Biennial, NY; isea98revolution (International Symposium on Electronic Art) in Liverpool and Manchester, England, and a solo exhibition, Toys n' Noise, at O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria in the summer of 2000. In August 1998 Lucas launched her first web project, Between a Rock and a Hard Drive with Dia Center for the Arts at www.diacenter.org/lucas. A second site www.simulsite.com was initiated in 1998. Her work in various media is documented on her sites www.inch.com/~klucas/works/ and www.eai.org/involuntary/index.html.

Lucas graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art, NY in 1994. Her single channel videotapes are distributed by EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix) in New York. She is currently participating in World Views Artist-In-Residence Program at 1 World Trade Center. World Views is co-organized by LMCC (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council) and Thundergulch.