Interdisciplinary, multi-media artist Kristin Lucas is a Brooklyn-based artist working with video/installation, performance, and the world wide web. Her work addresses the complexity of her relationship toward automation and the psychological effects of rapid spread technology.

Lucas will present a lecture on three recent projects for the internet. Between a Rock and a Hard Drive is a series of 56 interactive waiting rooms for the Internet. The Simulcast web site documents the public inteventions of a real energy-management company. Lucas was here this past June with the Simulcast Convention as a part of the Church of What's Happening Now series at the Wexner Center. Involutary Reception is the home page of a young woman with an enormous electro-magnetic pulse field generated by her body, featuring a streaming video monologue.

Lucas exhibited works in the US and abroad since 1996, including a recent exhibition entitled "Temporary Housing for the Despondent Virtual Citizen" at the ICA Philadelphia, commissioned by the O.K Center for Contempory Art in Linz, Austria. She has received residencies at the Experimental Television Center, Harvestowkrs, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Space Program. Her work has been included in Young and Restless at the Museum of Modern Art, the 1997 Whitney Biennial and isea98revolution. Upcoming exhibitions include a public performance and screening as a part of Media City in Seoul, South Korea in October 2000.

www.diacenter.org/lucas/index.html
www.simulsite.com
www.involuntary.org