Social Software

☆ Social Software Cycle 1 ☆ Last day to submit proposals! sosoft.arts.ucla.edu/cycle-1/

I'm looking forward to being in SF this weekend for the Gray Area Festival. What a lineup of exhibitions, speakers, performances, and workshops: grayareafestival.io @GrayAreaorg

Embark on an immersive journey into the evolving relationship between #AI and human connection on #jerrymossplaza this Fall! 👅📰 Join us from 8/29-11/3 to experience 2 groundbreaking activations that will challenge what you know about the intersection of art and technology!

"voice in my head" with @laurenleemack is at the music center in downtown LA until november! on thursday-sunday. it's best as a two-person experience, bring a friend 🤗 musiccenter.org/experience-lea…

"Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy & Chandler McWilliams on Expanding Software" with @REAS & @laurenleemack by Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez The group explores how art, technology & culture collide in the race to preserve our digital past 🔻 📖➡️ lerandom.art/editorial/case…

Trevor Paglen on human perception, Eliza, psyops, and machine computation: “Our intuition about creativity cannot fully account for that, so we attribute some kind of supernatural element to the machine. We assume that an machinic image makes sense or that it has meaning. We also assume that the machine must have some level of intentionality, in the way a human might, when it presents us with an image of the world; because we cannot fully explain what’s going on, it must be ‘intelligent.’ But when you examine the anatomy of how training sets are constructed, you can see the ways in which political and sociocultural assumptions are built into them, and how models of seeing and perceiving the world have become influencing machines, designed to affect and inform our perception of the world and normalize the computational activities involved in that process.”

Take 15 seconds to enjoy this weekend🔻 CSRSNT-ZAAI-24-of-64.png by @csrsnt @REAS

@REAS @laurenleemack @monkantony_tez @uclaconditional @socialsoftware_ @UCLA_DMA @UCLAarts @GettyMuseum @PST_ART More about the Mirror archive 🪞👇 mirrorarchive.net/about

@REAS @laurenleemack @monkantony_tez @uclaconditional @socialsoftware_ @UCLA_DMA @UCLAarts Peter Bauman @monkantony_tez spoke to the trio about the Mirror digital archive project and its related upcoming @GettyMuseum @PST_ART exhibition. More about the exhibition🔻 pst.art/en/exhibitions…

Coming soon to Editorials 📌📅 @REAS | @laurenleemack | Chandler McWilliams rethink software art

Join us for an Art + Code Teacher Camp Info Session to learn to integrate #opensource coding tools like @p5xjs and #Processing into art education✨ Teachers will be provided a stipend, mentorship, and community for this opportunity. tinyurl.com/artpluscode2024 #artpluscode2024

Last day to register for our virtual ☁️High School Summer Institute☁️ through Social Software, a lab I co-direct with @REAS. Please share with any high schoolers or incoming college first years interested in art, code, and AI!

Tomorrow is the last day to submit an app (it's short!) to participate in an ☆Artist Roundtable☆ for May. Artists who are selected to participate will receive a 500 USDC grant to use towards minting and producing new work onchain. Apply ↓ themint.fund/apply

About last night at the @rhizome benefit…❤️ @briandroitcour w/ performance issue supersquad @mindyseu @laurenleemack & @mayaonthenet 🌟

🎉The Processing Foundation Software Development Grant (pr05) open call for applications is now live! 🎉 Receive a $10,000 grant, mentorship, and community support. Mark your calendars for the Grant Info Sessions on May 6th and 20th! 🌟Apply now: pr05.formstack.com/forms/pr05_gra…

Honored to have my work "Hysterical" enter the @unicorndao_xxx collection. This film is part of my Surrogate series, with cinematography by Gabriel Noguez.

Does social media make you feel shitty about yourself? Me too. Come join @mayaonthenet and myself @MOCAlosangeles on Thursday evening and we will invoke the spirits of the Ugly Bitches AND the Little Darlings to make you forget your dreams and aspirations. Free ticket link below

𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 | 𝗦𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗡 Introducing the next #OutlandGuestEditor 📯 ✨ We're thrilled to welcome @laurenleemack! 🥳 The 'Saliva' artist will lead us through a new special issue on #Performance. Today in the mag, read her opening note 📰⤵️

I guest edited @outland_art's issue on performance! Here's my intro to the issue focusing on artists who create performances responding to the gaps left by technology. More artist conversations and texts will be published in the coming days...

In the essay, editor-in-chief @briandroitcour notes that McCarthy wanted to "give even more of herself, to dismantle all boundaries between herself and others." Her work 'Surrogate,' 2021, might even mark a limit to those boundaries. Read on 🗞️: outland.art/lauren-lee-mcc…