Lauren Gray
Fine Art BA Hons
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Fine Art / Textiles - Knit/Weave
Location: London, United Kingdom
Lauren Gray
First Name: Lauren
Last Name: Gray
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Fine Art / Textiles - Knit/Weave
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Fine Art BA Hons
About
Hi I’m Lauren Gray, I’m an interdisciplinary multimedia artist based in London focussing on iterations, algorithms and understanding the world through meditative practice. My work tends to focus on real-time collaborations between human and machine, textiles and technology and learning to navigate spaces through practice. I’m interested in the materiality of textile work, the limitless use of creative coding and the uses, effects and evolution of digital culture.
Knit! is an expansive and evolving interactive textile installation comprised of knitted yarn, chain, conductive thread, physical computing components and screens displaying javascript experimentation and AI collaboration. Knit! came as a result of my collaboration with VQGAN + CLIP, an open-source generative adversarial network. Presenting the AI a dataset of my textile work (images of my knit samples), the GAN would work to generate new samples and collages based on patterns it recognised within my work and the "knit" prompt I gave it. The results were incredibly interesting and led me to build a physical expanding knit piece inspired by the ways in which the AI would pick apart elements of my work and regenerate new ones with abstract knit patterns, colours and layers.
Competitions
Global Design Graduate Show 2023
Essentials is a continuation from ‘knit!’; An interactive installation converting the viewers presence into sound. Drawing inspiration from natural elements and merging their importance for humanity with that of novel technology. Questioning our interaction with nature and the space around us while highlighting our impact on the natural world.
Competitions