Lauren Carroll Harris

Dr Lauren Carroll Harris is an award-winning writer and researcher, contributing to such outlets as The Monthly online and ABC Radio National on screen culture and contemporary art. She is a contributing editor of Kill Your Darlings, writes the monthly Stream Lover column of video-on-demand criticism in The Guardian Australia, and was Acting Assistant Editor of RealTime in 2017. Her monograph, 'Not at a Cinema Near You: Australia's Film Distribution Problem' (2013) was published through Platform Papers, and she has a PhD in cinema from University of New South Wales.

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Baden Pailthorpe

By Lauren Carroll Harris — 8 June, 2018

Football becomes an algorithm in Baden Pailthorpe’s new solo exhibition at UTS Gallery. Or rather, a football algorithm feeds moving image art. Data artists translate gluts of information into aesthetic forms—here, Pailthorpe aestheticises an AFL game, tracking the movements of the players in the 2017 AFL Round 23 Swans v Carlton game, before visualising this…

Terror Nullius

Soda_Jerk

By Lauren Carroll Harris — 25 May, 2018

Soda_Jerk are bomb-throwers. For more than fifteen years, the Australian, New-York-based collaborative unit have made an art practice out of cutting, collaging and appropriating—watching for the blind spots in the official narratives of culture, politics and history, fascinated less by what’s present than what’s omitted. Now, in their 55-minute video work, Terror Nullius (2018), they…