Speakers Lucy McRae: Body architect
Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, Lucy McRae is fascinated by the human body, and how it can be shaped by technology.
Why you should listen to her:
Lucy McRae is an artist who straddles the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her work – which is inherently fascinated with the human body – involves inventing and building structures on the skin that reshape the human silhouette. Her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed: a future human archetype existing in an alternate world. The media call her an inventor; friends call her a trailblazer. Either way, Lucy relies on instinct to evolve an extraordinary visual path that is powerful, primal and unique.
Quotes by Lucy McRae
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“I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.”
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“I created a swallowable perfume. … The fragrance comes out through the skin's surface when you perspire.”
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Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
- 03:59 Posted: Apr 2012
Lucy McRae on the Web
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- TED2012