Untitled (digital diagnosis) (2023) questions the familiarity and futurism of the post-human “body”. The video circulating behind the static, yet fleshed, body runs diagnostic source footage—performing as a type of digital doctor for hot pixels—and questioning “the exploitation of the body in the current digital dystopia.”
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Digital America interviewed Lauren Aria in April 2025 on their work Untitled (digital diagnosis).
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Lauren Aria (she/they) is an artist and scientific glassblower based in Madison, WI. She currently works in the UW-Madison Chemistry Glass Shop, designing and fabricating custom glassware for all departments on campus. Her art practice investigates the complex material boundaries of the body in an innovative and synthetic world. Lauren received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2022 with material focuses in glass, neon, and video. Upon graduation, she received the prestigious Windgate–Lamar Fellowship Award from the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC. Lauren has been a resident artist at Salem Art Works in Salem, New York, and has shown her work at venues including the Chazen Museum of Art, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, and the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
