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Lily McCraith

[she/her, UK]

Becoming-with Proteus

IG web

Video and installation, 2023

[EN]Lily McCraith is a designer/researcher/artist working across technologies and disciplines. Her work investigates systems, infrastructures and ecologies via active methods of research, enquiry and collaboration. She works with research based approaches, exploring situated knowledges through collaborative making projects. She holds a BA in Design from Goldsmiths University, London. Recent work includes: The All Rivers and Species Act, Workshops at Holland Festival & Fiber Festival (2022), Now Play This Game Design Lab at Somerset House (2022) Goethe Institut Artificial Intelligence Residency (2021), Makerversity Designer in Residence (2021), Reassemble Lab, Weaving with Worlds, Fiber Festival (2021), Panellist, Art & A,I K camp - German Informatic Society (2021), School of Speculation, South London Gallery & Design Museum (2019)

[IT]Lily McCraith è una designer/ricercatrice/artista che lavora attraverso le tecnologie e le discipline. Il suo lavoro indaga sistemi, infrastrutture ed ecologie attraverso metodi attivi di ricerca, indagine e collaborazione. Lavora con approcci basati sulla ricerca, esplorando conoscenze situate attraverso progetti di collaborazione. Ha conseguito una laurea in Design presso la Goldsmiths University di Londra. Tra i lavori recenti ricordiamo: The All Rivers and Species Act, workshop all'Holland Festival e al Fiber Festival (2022), Now Play This Game Design Lab alla Somerset House (2022) Goethe Institut Artificial Intelligence Residency (2021), Makerversity Designer in Residence (2021), Reassemble Lab, Weaving with Worlds, Fiber Festival (2021), Panellist, Art & A,I K camp - German Informatic Society (2021), School of Speculation, South London Gallery & Design Museum (2019).

[EN]»Becoming-with Proteus« documents a series of research-based encounters with the cave-dwelling »human fish«, or »baby dragon«. A journey through caves, laboratories and archives explores the interconnectedness of human activity and subterranean ecologies.

Which creatures do we care about and make kin with? How might subsurface intelligences and communities help us to consider the protection of shared common life-sustaining resources, such as groundwater?

With thanks to the following for their generosity, sharing of knowledge, time and expertise; Edgardo Mauri (Speliovivarium Trieste), Gregor Aljančič (Tular Cave Laboratory, Kranj, Slovenia), Raul Maneti (University of Milan), Ferdinando Didonna (Società Speleologica Italiana), Gergely Balázs (Eötvös Loránd University), Brian Lewarne (the Devon Karst Research Society), Susanne Holtze (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research), Saša (KAP Jasa), Planinska Jama and the National Film Archive of Slovenia, Carlos Casas. Thanks to Pheobe Riley Law, Tommy Brentnall, Francesca Perpetuini and Liu Baoyu for their assistance in the production of the film.

[IT]»Becoming-with Proteus« documenta una serie di incontri di ricerca sul Proteo, un anfibio che vive nelle caverne, conosciuto come »baby dragon« o »pesciolino umano«. Un viaggio tra grotte, laboratori di ricerca e archivi scientifici, esplora l'interconnessione tra l'attività umana e le ecologie sotterranee.

Di quali creature ci importa davvero e con quali creiamo un legame? In che modo le intelligenze e le comunità del sottosuolo possono aiutarci a individuare nuove modalità per salvaguardare risorse comuni di sostentamento vitale come le acque sotterranee?

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Lily McCraith [she/her, UK]	Becoming-with Proteus
IG web	Video and installation, 2023
[EN]Lily McCraith is a designer/researcher/artist working across technologies and disciplines. Her work investigates systems, infrastructures and ecologies via active methods of research, enquiry and collaboration. She works with research based approaches, exploring situated knowledges through collaborative making projects. She holds a BA in Design from Goldsmiths University, London. Recent work includes: The All Rivers and Species Act, Workshops at Holland Festival & Fiber Festival (2022), Now Play This Game Design Lab at Somerset House (2022) Goethe Institut Artificial Intelligence Residency (2021), Makerversity Designer in Residence (2021), Reassemble Lab, Weaving with Worlds, Fiber Festival (2021), Panellist, Art & A,I K camp - German Informatic Society (2021), School of Speculation, South London Gallery & Design Museum (2019) [IT]Lily McCraith è una designer/ricercatrice/artista che lavora attraverso le tecnologie e le discipline. Il suo lavoro indaga sistemi, infrastrutture ed ecologie attraverso metodi attivi di ricerca, indagine e collaborazione. Lavora con approcci basati sulla ricerca, esplorando conoscenze situate attraverso progetti di collaborazione. Ha conseguito una laurea in Design presso la Goldsmiths University di Londra. Tra i lavori recenti ricordiamo: The All Rivers and Species Act, workshop all'Holland Festival e al Fiber Festival (2022), Now Play This Game Design Lab alla Somerset House (2022) Goethe Institut Artificial Intelligence Residency (2021), Makerversity Designer in Residence (2021), Reassemble Lab, Weaving with Worlds, Fiber Festival (2021), Panellist, Art & A,I K camp - German Informatic Society (2021), School of Speculation, South London Gallery & Design Museum (2019).	[EN]»Becoming-with Proteus« documents a series of research-based encounters with the cave-dwelling »human fish«, or »baby dragon«. A journey through caves, laboratories and archives explores the interconnectedness of human activity and subterranean ecologies. Which creatures do we care about and make kin with? How might subsurface intelligences and communities help us to consider the protection of shared common life-sustaining resources, such as groundwater? With thanks to the following for their generosity, sharing of knowledge, time and expertise; Edgardo Mauri (Speliovivarium Trieste), Gregor Aljančič (Tular Cave Laboratory, Kranj, Slovenia), Raul Maneti (University of Milan), Ferdinando Didonna (Società Speleologica Italiana), Gergely Balázs (Eötvös Loránd University), Brian Lewarne (the Devon Karst Research Society), Susanne Holtze (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research), Saša (KAP Jasa), Planinska Jama and the National Film Archive of Slovenia, Carlos Casas. Thanks to Pheobe Riley Law, Tommy Brentnall, Francesca Perpetuini and Liu Baoyu for their assistance in the production of the film. [IT]»Becoming-with Proteus« documenta una serie di incontri di ricerca sul Proteo, un anfibio che vive nelle caverne, conosciuto come »baby dragon« o »pesciolino umano«. Un viaggio tra grotte, laboratori di ricerca e archivi scientifici, esplora l'interconnessione tra l'attività umana e le ecologie sotterranee. Di quali creature ci importa davvero e con quali creiamo un legame? In che modo le intelligenze e le comunità del sottosuolo possono aiutarci a individuare nuove modalità per salvaguardare risorse comuni di sostentamento vitale come le acque sotterranee?