ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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
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.
More profile about the speaker
Lucy McRae | Speaker | TED.com
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Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?

Lucy McRae: Lucy McRae: Kako tehnologija transformira ljudsko tijelo?

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TED Fellow Lucy McRae je tjelesna arhitektica -- ona smišlja načine kako spojiti biologiju i tehnologiju u našim tijelima. U ovom vizualno, divnom govoru, pokuzaje svoj rad -- od odjeće koja imitira ljudsku nutrinu za muzički video pop zvijezde Robyn, do tablete koja, kada ju progutate, omogućava da lučite parfem umjesto znoja.
- 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. Full bio

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I call myselfsebe a bodytijelo architectarhitekt.
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Sebe nazivam tjelesnom arhitekticom.
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I trainedobučen in classicalklasične balletbalet
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Trenirala sam klasični balet
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and have a backgroundpozadina in architecturearhitektura and fashionmoda.
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i obrazovala se u arhitekturi i modi.
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As a bodytijelo architectarhitekt, I fascinatefasciniraju with the humanljudski bodytijelo
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Kao tjelesna arhitektica,
fascinirana sam ljudskim tijelom
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and exploreistražiti how I can transformtransformirati it.
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i istražujem kako ga mogu transformirati.
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I workedradio at PhilipsPhilips ElectronicsElektronika
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Radila sam u Philips Electronics
u laboratoriju u kojem se
bavimo dizajnom daleke budućnosti,
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in the far-futuresad-budući designdizajn researchistraživanje lablaboratorija,
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looking 20 yearsgodina into the futurebudućnost.
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gledajući 20 godina u budućnost.
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I exploredistražena the humanljudski skinkoža, and how technologytehnologija can transformtransformirati the bodytijelo.
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Istraživala sam ljudsku kožu, i kako
tehnologija može transformirati tijelo.
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I workedradio on conceptspojmovi like an electronicelektronička tattootetovaža,
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Radila sam na konceptima
poput elektroničke tetovaže,
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whichkoji is augmentedprošireni by touchdodir,
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koja se proširuje dodirom,
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or dresseshaljine that blushedpocrvenjela and shiveredshivered with lightsvjetlo.
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ili haljina koje bi zarumenile
ili zadrhtale pod svjetlom.
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I startedpočeo my ownvlastiti experimentspokusi.
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Započela sam vlastite eksperimente.
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These were the low-techlow-tech approachespristupi to the high-techvisoka tehnologija conversationsrazgovori I was havingima.
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To su bili nisko-tehnološki pristupi,
visoko-tehnološkim konverzacijama
koje sam imala.
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These are Q-tipsŠtapići stucku škripcu to my roommatecimer with wigvlasulja glueljepilo.
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Ovo su štapići za uši zaljepljeni za moju
cimericu ljepilom za vlasulje.
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(LaughterSmijeh)
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(Smijeh)
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I startedpočeo a collaborationkolaboracija with a friendprijatelj of minerudnik, BartBart HessHess --
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Započela sam kolaboraciju
s prijateljicom, Bart Hess --
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he doesn't normallynormalno look like this --
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obično ne izgleda ovako --
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and we used ourselvessebe as modelsmodeli.
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i sebe smo koristili kao modele.
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We transformedpretvara our apartmentsapartmani into our laboratorieslaboratoriji,
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Transformirali smo
naše stanove u laboratorije,
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and workedradio in a very spontaneousspontan and immediateneposredan way.
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i radili na jako spontan
i neposredan način.
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We were creatingstvaranje
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Kreirali smo
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visualvidni imagerylik provokingizazivanja humanljudski evolutionevolucija.
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vizualno provokativnu ljudsku evoluciju.
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WhilstDok I was at PhilipsPhilips, we discussedraspravljati this ideaideja of a maybe technologytehnologija,
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Dok sam bila u Philipsu, raspravljali smo
o toj ideji potencijalne tehnologije,
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something that wasn'tnije eitherili switcheduključen on or off, but in betweenizmeđu.
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nečega što se ne može
niti upaliti niti ugasiti, nečega između.
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A maybe that could take the formoblik of a gasplin or a liquidtekući.
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I možda bi to moglo imati
formu plina ili tekućine.
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And I becamepostao obsessedopsjednut with this ideaideja of blurringzamućenje the perimeterperimetar of the bodytijelo,
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I postala sam opsjednuta s tom idejom
mutnog perimetra tijela,
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so you couldn'tne mogu see where the skinkoža endedzavršeno and the nearblizu environmentokolina startedpočeo.
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tako da ne možete vidjeti gdje koža
završava a gdje njena okolina počinje.
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I setset up my studiostudio in the red-lightcrveno svjetlo districtokrug
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Postavila sam svoj studio
u okrugu crvenih-svjetiljki
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and obsessivelyopsesivno wrappedumotan myselfsebe in plumbingvodovodni tubingcijevi,
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i opsesivno se
zamotala u vodovodne cijevi,
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and foundpronađeno a way to redefineredefinirati the skinkoža
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I pronašla način da redefiniram kožu
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and createstvoriti this dynamicdinamičan textiletekstil.
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i stvorim ovaj dinamičan tekstil.
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I was introduceduvedena to RobynRobyn, the Swedishšvedski poppop starzvijezda,
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Predstavljena sam Robyn,
švedskoj pop zvijezdi,
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and she was alsotakođer exploringistraživanje
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i ona je također istraživala
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how technologytehnologija coexistskoegzistira with rawsirov humanljudski emotionemocija.
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kako tehnologija koegzistira
sa sirovom ljudskom emocijom.
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And she talkedRazgovarao about how technologytehnologija with these newnovi feathersperje,
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I ona je pričala o tehnologij s ovim novim perjem,
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this newnovi facelice paintboja, this punkpunk, the way that we identifyidentificirati with the worldsvijet,
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ovom novom bojom za lice, punkom,
načinom na koji se identificiramo sa svijetom
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and we madenapravljen this musicglazba videovideo.
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i napravile smo ovaj muzički video.
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I'm fascinatedopčinjen with the ideaideja
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Fascinirana sam s idejom
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of what happensdogađa se when you mergesjediniti biologybiologija with technologytehnologija,
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o tome što se dogodi kada
spojite biologiju s tehnologijim,
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and I rememberzapamtiti readingčitanje about this ideaideja of beingbiće ableu stanju to reprogramreprogramiranje
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i sjećam se kako sam čitala o toj ideji
biloškog reprogramiranja i izbjegavanja
bolesti te starenja u budućnosti.
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biologybiologija, in the futurebudućnost, away from diseasebolest and agingstarenje.
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And I thought about this conceptkoncept of,
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I razmišljala sam o tom konceptu,
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imaginezamisliti if we could reprogramreprogramiranje
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zamislite da možemo reprogramirati
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our ownvlastiti bodytijelo odormiris, modifyizmijeniti and biologicallybiološki enhancepovećati it,
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vlastiti miris, modificiramo ga
i biološki poboljšamo,
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and how would that changepromijeniti the way that we communicatekomunicirati with eachsvaki other?
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i kako bi to promijenilo način
na koji međusobno komuniciramo?
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Or the way that we attractprivući sexualseksualan partnerspartneri?
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Ili način na koji privlačimo
seksualne partnere?
Bi li se vratili tome
da više nalikujemo životinjama,
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And would we revertvratiti se back to beingbiće more like animalsživotinje,
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more primalprvobitan modesnačini of communicationkomunikacija?
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primitivnijim oblicima komunikacije?
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I workedradio with a syntheticsintetski biologistbiolog,
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Radila sam sa sintetičkim biologom
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and I createdstvorio a swallowableswallowable perfumeparfem,
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i stvorila parfem koji se proguta,
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whichkoji is a cosmetickozmetički pillpilula that you eatjesti
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koji je kozmetička tableta koju pojedete
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and the fragranceparfem comesdolazi out throughkroz the skin'skože surfacepovršinski when you perspireznojimo.
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a miris izlazi preko površine kože
kada se znojite.
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It completelypotpuno blowsudarci apartosim the way that perfumeparfem is,
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To u potpunosti ruši
način na koji je parfem zamišljen,
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and providespruža a wholečitav newnovi formatformat.
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i osigurava potpuno novi format.
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It's perfumeparfem comingdolazak from the insideiznutra out.
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To je parfem koji dolazi iznutra.
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It redefinesredefinira the roleuloga of skinkoža, and our bodiestjelesa becomepostati an atomizerraspršivač.
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Redefinira ulogu kože,
a naša tijela postaju raspršivači.
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I've learnednaučeno that there's no boundariesgranice,
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Naučila sam kako ne postoje granice
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and if I look at the evolutionevolucija of my work
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i ako sagledam evoluciju svog posla
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i can see threadsteme and connectionsveze that make senseosjećaj.
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mogu vidjeti niti
i veze koje imaju smisla.
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But when I look towardsza the futurebudućnost,
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Ali kada gledam prema budućnosti
slijedeći projekt je
potpuno nepoznat i širom otvoren.
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the nextSljedeći projectprojekt is completelypotpuno unknownnepoznato and wideširok openotvoren.
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I feel like I have all these ideasideje existingpostojanje embeddedugrađen insideiznutra of me,
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Osjećam kako sve te ideje postoje u meni,
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and it's these conversationsrazgovori and these experiencesiskustva
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i to su ti razgovori i ta iskustva
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that connectSpojiti these ideasideje, and they kindljubazan of instinctivelynagonski come out.
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koja povezuju te ideje,
i one instiktivno izađu.
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As a bodytijelo architectarhitekt,
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Kao arhitektica tijela,
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I've createdstvorio this limitlessneograničene and boundlessbezgraničan platformplatforma
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kreirala sam ovu neograničenu,
bezgraničnu platformu
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for me to discoverotkriti whateveršto god I want.
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kako bih otkrila što god poželim.
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And I feel like I've just got startedpočeo.
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I osjećam kao da sam tek počela.
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So here'sevo to anotherjoš day at the officeured.
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Dakle, živio još jedan dan u uredu.
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(LaughterSmijeh) (ApplausePljesak)
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(Smijeh)
(Pljesak)
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Thank you!
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Hvala vam!
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(Pljesak)
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Thank you!
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Hvala vam!

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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
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.
More profile about the speaker
Lucy McRae | Speaker | TED.com

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