Laura McLean is a curator and researcher based in Naarm Melbourne. As Associate Curator at Liquid Architecture and Artistic Director at Blindside, she works with experimental practices and critical ideas engaging sound, listening, and media technologies across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. She is currently completing a PhD in Curatorial Practice at MADA, Monash University, where she also teaches, and is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). She holds an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Past projects include CIVICS, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, Melbourne (2020); Startup States, Sarai-CSDS, Delhi (2019); The Conversational Cosmos, West Space, Melbourne (2017); Planetary Gardening, Photo Access, Canberra (2017); Zoe v Bios: Behavioural Modernity and Jenna Sutela_Orgs, Artistic Bokeh, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna (2015); and Contingent Movements Archive, Maldives Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale and UNESCO, Paris (2013). Her writing has been published by journals and publishers including ArtAsiaPacific, Eyeline, HKW Technosphere Magazine, Arena, The MIT Press, and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.