Laurie halsey brown is an intra-disciplinary and hybrid practioner from New York presently based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands | Her present artistic focus is as a ‘mediator’ between architects and the public realm in order to facilitate dialogue, heighten awareness of the daily experience of architecture and empower the user towards establishing their voice in how architecture is designed | as an aspect of this, her series of beingthere projects investigate place and a psychological, experiential relationship to space | These projects articulate a developing relationship to an environment through a set of intra-disciplinary responses shown simultaneously such as a net.art piece, an installation and an art work in ‘book’ form | interrelated responses take form simultaneously in private | public | virtual | physical locations | an integration of responses and
[dis]locations: local/global/physical/virtual/private/public in relation to time [simultaniety] are made visible in the public realm to [re]create an experience of being there | she has been shown in the U.S. including the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC and internationally | along with the beingthere series, she has created numerous intra-disciplinary projects | public art projects and media-based curatorial projects | site-responsive installations and architectural interventions | single-channel videos that have been screened at international festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2004 and which articulate psychological movements of time | Since 2001, she has been a part of several online exhibitions/digital
festivals | In 2003, she launched beingthere.v1.squat.03, with beingthere.v2.r’dam.05 launched in 2005, and beingthere.v3.newcastle.06 to be launched in 2006