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LAURIE FRICK

Data artist, handbuilt artwork from personal data

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February 13, 2026

Surprisingly good conversation with Carrie Scott

February 13, 2026/ Laurie Frick

This is the teaser video from Carrie Scott at www.seen.art - it’s behind a paywall, but I’ll have the podcast to post soon. Ignore the horrible thumbnail preview image, we talk like normal people.

February 13, 2026/ Laurie Frick/

Laurie Frick

Data Artist: making hand-built patterns

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LAURIE FRICK

 

Data artist exploring the future of data about you.

 

Email me at: laurie@lauriefrick.com

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Talks, videos and media
  • February 2026
    • Feb 13, 2026 Surprisingly good conversation with Carrie Scott Feb 13, 2026
  • December 2021
    • Dec 12, 2021 Lexus asked me to make art about a new car Dec 12, 2021
  • April 2021
    • Apr 3, 2021 Vaccinated, installing art across the country Apr 3, 2021
  • December 2020
    • Dec 13, 2020 How does data tell a story with large scale physical art installations Dec 13, 2020
  • June 2020
    • Jun 21, 2020 Glass and the pandemic Jun 21, 2020
  • March 2019
    • Mar 11, 2019 Women in the arts Mar 11, 2019
  • January 2019
    • Jan 7, 2019 Public art is very public - 500 ft underpass in Austin Jan 7, 2019
  • December 2018
    • Dec 19, 2018 I've discovered you can dye things Dec 19, 2018
  • September 2018
    • Sep 16, 2018 Don’tcha love a time-lapse? Sep 16, 2018
  • August 2018
    • Aug 19, 2018 Why being tall as a kid made me curious about the future. TEDx 2018 clip. Aug 19, 2018
  • February 2018
    • Feb 18, 2018 Friend nutrition -- who to see, know, ignore Feb 18, 2018
  • November 2017
    • Nov 4, 2017 Why is this not data visualization? Show me the data. Nov 4, 2017
  • September 2017
    • Sep 4, 2017 Friend Nutrition: who to see, know, ignore... Sep 4, 2017
  • August 2017
    • Aug 2, 2017 Relationships are ripe for machine learning Aug 2, 2017
  • October 2016
    • Oct 28, 2016 How do your friends affect you? #friendtracking for TEDxLA experiment! Oct 28, 2016
  • August 2016
    • Aug 17, 2016 I want my data, I want what I wanted as a little kid, to understand who I could become... Aug 17, 2016
  • May 2016
    • May 14, 2016 Prediction: who you hang out with will become like diet and exercise May 14, 2016
  • March 2016
    • Mar 13, 2016 What if art made itself... the art version of a self-driving car. Mar 13, 2016
  • November 2015
    • Nov 5, 2015 Grow your own art... as wall texture from data collected about you. Nov 5, 2015
  • August 2015
    • Aug 16, 2015 I rebuilt my website ....completely Aug 16, 2015
  • July 2015
    • Jul 30, 2015 Technology will disrupt the art-world, just not in the way you think Jul 30, 2015
  • May 2015
    • May 15, 2015 Personal data beginning to feel less sinister May 15, 2015
  • March 2015
    • Mar 17, 2015 Will a data-selfie boost your immune system? Mar 17, 2015
    • Mar 11, 2015 The tyranny of tiny tasks Mar 11, 2015
  • February 2015
    • Feb 24, 2015 Time is both squishy and stretchy Feb 24, 2015
  • January 2015
    • Jan 2, 2015 Do you feel bad about how you spend your time? Jan 2, 2015
  • November 2014
    • Nov 1, 2014 FRICKbits is live!! It's free, no catch. Download it now. Nov 1, 2014
  • September 2014
    • Sep 7, 2014 Holy crap... you did something great! Sep 7, 2014
  • August 2014
    • Aug 31, 2014 FRICKbits? Where did this come from? Aug 31, 2014
    • Aug 15, 2014 FRICKbits - press release Aug 15, 2014
    • Aug 12, 2014 Take back my data... will art be the beginning of a data revolution? Aug 12, 2014
    • Aug 9, 2014 Launching a kickstarter for FRICKbits tomorrow! Aug 9, 2014
  • July 2014
    • Jul 31, 2014 How many things can you work on simultaneously? Jul 31, 2014
  • June 2014
    • Jun 21, 2014 Floating Data piece during installation Jun 21, 2014
    • Jun 18, 2014 Art from data slides, and why my motto is don't hide...get more Jun 18, 2014
    • Jun 6, 2014 "Don't hide....get more" my motto for the new data transparency Jun 6, 2014
  • April 2014
    • Apr 10, 2014 The beginning of collecting personal data Apr 10, 2014
    • Apr 6, 2014 Don't hide....go get more (data about yourself) Apr 6, 2014
    • Apr 4, 2014 Quantified Self meets a company of designers and developers... Apr 4, 2014
  • March 2014
    • Mar 31, 2014 Creative Mornings in Austin Mar 31, 2014
    • Mar 9, 2014 A genius from SXSW 2014 Mar 9, 2014
    • Mar 1, 2014 The beginning of collecting personal data....part 1 Mar 1, 2014
  • February 2014
    • Feb 10, 2014 A data portrait of a company Feb 10, 2014
    • Feb 6, 2014 3 artists describe the show at Texas State University (Jan-Feb 2014) Feb 6, 2014
    • Feb 2, 2014 ...one of the things Austin lets you do is reinvent yourself. Feb 2, 2014
  • January 2014
    • Jan 17, 2014 New media uses handwritten questionnaire for interview Jan 17, 2014
  • November 2013
    • Nov 21, 2013 What will all your personal data add up to? Nov 21, 2013
  • October 2013
    • Oct 16, 2013 Art magazines beginning to write about Quantified-Self art...flip to p7 Oct 16, 2013
  • September 2013
    • Sep 14, 2013 Art + Neuroscience = Laurie Frick Sep 14, 2013
    • Sep 8, 2013 Marfa Contemporary | Oklahoma Contemporary: Walking, Eating, Sleeping show catalog Sep 8, 2013
  • August 2013
    • Aug 20, 2013 Making work Aug 20, 2013
  • July 2013
    • Jul 1, 2013 Austin scientist self-tracking experiment includes 3x weekly brain scan Jul 1, 2013
  • June 2013
    • Jun 21, 2013 Walk thru the installation at OK Contemporary in about a minute Jun 21, 2013
  • May 2013
    • May 22, 2013 Experiments in self-tracking - article in Second Sight May 22, 2013
  • April 2013
    • Apr 21, 2013 Will our 'digital social pulse' diagnose and predict our behaviour? Apr 21, 2013
    • Apr 5, 2013 5 questions Apr 5, 2013
  • March 2013
    • Mar 16, 2013 Artify...will we talk about artification - same as we talk about gamification? Mar 16, 2013
  • February 2013
    • Feb 25, 2013 Don't fear your phone watching you (the art of self-surveillance)....my TED talk from TEDxAustin Feb 25, 2013
  • January 2013
    • Jan 4, 2013 Data becomes physical: data --> art --> 3D printing Jan 4, 2013
  • December 2012
    • Dec 16, 2012 Texas Biennial catalog from last year just came online Dec 16, 2012
  • November 2012
    • Nov 28, 2012 What if you could see exactly where you've been... Nov 28, 2012
  • October 2012
    • Oct 5, 2012 10 things I learned from measuring 600 nights of sleep Oct 5, 2012
  • September 2012
    • Sep 14, 2012 How to color code your zeo sleep data Sep 14, 2012
    • Sep 9, 2012 Keeping track of yourself Sep 9, 2012
  • July 2012
    • Jul 2, 2012 Fantasy future where wall texture is built from data about YOU Jul 2, 2012
  • June 2012
    • Jun 11, 2012 3D printing - yes, absolutely we'll live in spaces with wall texture built from patterns of OUR self-tracking data Jun 11, 2012
    • Jun 7, 2012 Smart people are out there Jun 7, 2012
    • Jun 1, 2012 Self-tracking dashboard....handbuilt Jun 1, 2012
  • March 2012
    • Mar 17, 2012 Researchers mapping the connectome might find the connection between neural patterns and how you experience the world Mar 17, 2012
    • Mar 1, 2012 See the full installation of 'Death and Life of an Object' at Edward Cella (I come in at 3.30). Up til Mar 31, 2012 Mar 1, 2012
  • February 2012
    • Feb 9, 2012 Can color capture your mood better than words? Feb 9, 2012
    • Feb 1, 2012 Slides for the art-talk! Feb 1, 2012
  • January 2012
    • Jan 31, 2012 First you make, make, make....then you talk, talk, talk. Jan 31, 2012
    • Jan 14, 2012 KUT - NPR in Austin created a short arts story Jan 14, 2012
  • November 2011
    • Nov 29, 2011 10 minute talk at Quantified-Self meetup in San Francisco - Oct 2011 Nov 29, 2011
    • Nov 22, 2011 How do we ....really count and translate numbers? Nov 22, 2011
  • October 2011
    • Oct 15, 2011 Quantify-me - timelapse of installation at the Headlands Center for the Arts Oct 15, 2011
    • Oct 2, 2011 Beginnings of the 'Quantify-me' installation at the Headlands Oct 2, 2011
  • September 2011
    • Sep 17, 2011 Sleep, self-tracking and art-making....you can pan/zoom and flip thru the slides quick here Sep 17, 2011
  • August 2011
    • Aug 31, 2011 Quantifying-me: what if the the walls produced ambient patterns of how I'm doing? Aug 31, 2011
  • July 2011
    • Jul 28, 2011 Use the blog to document an idea..... the bio-art-wall Jul 28, 2011
    • Jul 26, 2011 Wavelet coherence - nice tools for visualizing patterns Jul 26, 2011
  • May 2011
    • May 28, 2011 Am experimenting with a way to capture human pattern, quickly reconfigure, send it for free to your phone May 28, 2011
    • May 24, 2011 More on sleep patterns - video of preso at Quantified Self meet-up in New York May 24, 2011
    • May 15, 2011 "I'm on the radiooooo" May 15, 2011
  • April 2011
    • Apr 19, 2011 When everything is perfectly in time, the mind tends to ignore it. Apr 19, 2011
  • March 2011
    • Mar 26, 2011 Clearest explanation possible for brain rhythm and sleep patterns in 3 minutes Mar 26, 2011
    • Mar 22, 2011 Reviewed in honest-to-goodness-SCIENCE-magazine Mar 22, 2011
    • Mar 21, 2011 Neural rhythms - symbiosis of visual pattern and internal neural pattern.... Mar 21, 2011
  • February 2011
    • Feb 23, 2011 Art-talk on Saturday with Laurie Frick and Stephen Nowlin, Feb 26 at 4pm Feb 23, 2011
    • Feb 12, 2011 4 days of installation at Edward Cella Feb 2011 Feb 12, 2011
  • January 2011
    • Jan 25, 2011 Solo show at Edward Cella in Los Angeles, opening Sat Feb 12, 6-8p thru April 2. Jan 25, 2011
    • Jan 15, 2011 Sleep holds secrets - night rhythms not so different than waking rhythms Jan 15, 2011
  • December 2010
    • Dec 17, 2010 3 hypothesis about relationship of art and science Dec 17, 2010
    • Dec 5, 2010 Abstract statistical pattern underlies all knowledge Dec 5, 2010
  • November 2010
    • Nov 17, 2010 Stop motion video of pattern crumbling - 7 stages, 6 categories, 264 ALS patients Nov 17, 2010
    • Nov 16, 2010 Maybe talking head video can explain it better than words Nov 16, 2010
  • October 2010
    • Oct 8, 2010 External preference for pattern matches internal brain structure? Oct 8, 2010
  • July 2010
    • Jul 23, 2010 Do we crave the staccato beat of the internet? Jul 23, 2010
    • Jul 22, 2010 Serotonin and the sense of well-being from art objects Jul 22, 2010
  • June 2010
    • Jun 18, 2010 Imagining a predictive model of aesthetics Jun 18, 2010
    • Jun 5, 2010 Brain scans for configurable art Jun 5, 2010
  • April 2010
    • Apr 27, 2010 Taste buds = aesthetic taste? Apr 27, 2010
  • March 2010
    • Mar 23, 2010 Randomness and the brain's search for patterns Mar 23, 2010
    • Mar 9, 2010 The brain is mainly an image processing system Mar 9, 2010
  • January 2010
    • Jan 21, 2010 More on neuroaesthetics Jan 21, 2010
    • Jan 16, 2010 Why do you like what you like Jan 16, 2010
  • December 2009
    • Dec 29, 2009 Art that targets the inner mind Dec 29, 2009
  • November 2009
    • Nov 19, 2009 Evidence of non-conscious processing Nov 19, 2009
  • September 2009
    • Sep 23, 2009 Your brain doesn't have arms, legs and toes Sep 23, 2009
  • August 2009
    • Aug 25, 2009 This is your brain on Picasso Aug 25, 2009
    • Aug 25, 2009 The familiar and the novel....and the tension between the two Aug 25, 2009
  • July 2009
    • Jul 28, 2009 How much organization is enough? Jul 28, 2009
    • Jul 21, 2009 Old posts Jul 21, 2009

Thank you! I’ll send VERY occasional news of shows, projects and installations with plenty of pics!

 

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