Lauren Huret

Prophecies of the Noosphere

Video, 2', loop, 2019

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Lauren Huret’s Prophecies of the Noosphere is inspired by the 1989 invention of the World Wide Web by scientist Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva. This historic event laid the foundation for the Internet as we know it today. The artist has sought to recreate a fantasy Tim Berners-Lee’s office. She has come up with a still image on which she projects a transparent animation of the Big Bang, which caused the formation of the cosmos. This parallelisation invites us to think of the creation of the Internet as that of a new, ever-expanding universe. The purpose of the artist is both to highlight a remarkable event for humankind, which took place in Geneva, and to recall the importance of this technology in our lives. This work is of direct relevance for passers-by, who access the Internet via their mobile phones, and station users, many of whom are on their way to work, where they will use a computer connected to the Net.

Produced by the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, Geneva

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Lauren Huret was born in 1984 in Paris. She lives and works in Geneva. She studied at the École des beaux-arts in Bordeaux, where she obtained her master’s degree in 2008, and completed her training with a second master’s degree at the Haute Ecole d’art et de design (HEAD) in Geneva in 2013. She was awarded the Pax Art Award in 2018 and has been nominated for numerous prizes including the Swiss Emerging Artist Prize and the Swiss Art Award in 2016. She also received numerous scholarships, including a Work Grant for Visual Art (Pro Helvetia) in 2018, a scholarship from the Engelberts Foundation and a grant from the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence in New York (grant awarded by the Republic and Canton of Geneva), in Marseille at the Post-disaster-residencies in 2018, and at the Kunsthalle Roveredo in Switzerland in 2017. Lauren Huret currently teaches at the HEAD.

Lauren Huret’s work focuses on new technologies. Through videos, performances and digital collages the artist highlights the effects of Internet and social media, and reflects on how these platforms govern our lives. Lauren Huret is more specifically interested in images from the Web. Her most recent work addresses the issue of censorship and the monitoring of images. The artist also raises awareness of the concept of surveillance, reminding us that any data posted on the Web is recorded and can be used. For this reason, no photographs or videos of her or her work are available on her site, which provides a mere list of the works she has produced.