The future is fleshy, according to Lucy McRae. As a new exhibition of her work opens at NGV in Melbourne, the designer explains why she believes the human body holds the key to the development of technology.
Lucy McRae: Body Architect, on show at NGV Australia, is the first career retrospective for the Los Angeles-based, Australian designer, whose work uses the body to speculate on the future.
Speaking to Dezeen, McRae said that the world of science fiction is too dominated by male perspectives. She wants to explore how the future, from a female point of view, can be "messy, visceral and human".
Lucy McRae calls herself a body architect
"I'm interested in giving science fiction an overdue sex change," she explained.
"The art I make speculates on the human condition with narratives that are feminine, raw and laced with emotion, to provoke and steer our future." "We've been submissive to technology"
McRae, 40, invented the title body architect. Working across science, technology, art and design, she uses the body as a starting point to explore how technologies like genetic engineering and artificial intelligence might be developed and adopted.
She wants to make people stop and think about whether those technologies are welcome or not.
McRae uses the body as a starting point to explore the future of technology
"We've been submissive to technology ? it drips into our lives and we just adapt. It's important to challenge whether we r...