Kristin Lucas
1968–
Kristin Lucas (b. 1968; Davenport, Iowa) explores the impact of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal.
Her augmented reality, video, installation, net art, and performance works have been presented internationally by museums and galleries, including the New Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; FACT Liverpool, United Kingdom; HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland; and the Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (1998), New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1998), Andrea Frank Foundation Grant (1999), Edith Russ Site for Media Art Stipend (2008), New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant (2020), and Rhizome commissions, among others. Lucas is an associate professor of studio art at the University of Texas, Austin.
Introduction
Kristin Lucas is a media artist who works in video, performance, installation and on the Internet. Her work explores the impacts of technology on humanity, blurring the boundary between the technological and corporeal. In her work she frequently casts herself as the protagonist in videos and performances where her interactions with technology lead to isolation, and physical and mental contamination.
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Country of birth
United States
Roles
Artist, video artist
ULAN identifier
500114725
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Exhibitions & projects
artport
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