Lauren Walker



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Selected Works
     01   Residual Lines
    02  Heat Mapping Entropy
    03  Synthetic Entomology
    04  The Room Holds Its Breath
    05  3D Prototyping + Design


Installation



Residual Lines (2025)
this is (not) a networking event,
ACHTUNG, Summaery 2025, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar





Residual Lines (2025)

Software: Arduino, Python, Wikipedia API

Hardware: ESP32, thermal receipt printer, linear rail, LED, photoresistor, limit switches (×2), 9 g servo motor, NEMA-17 stepper motors (×2), TMC2209 stepper motor drivers (×2), 12V + 9V power supplies

Dimensions: 60 × 38.5 × 54 cm

Photo: Darko, July 2025
Residual Lines was developed in response to U.S. research funding cuts enacted in March 2025, targeting medical, environmental, and sociological fields amid a broader trend towards anti-intellectualism. Created during the final months of the artist’s own U.S. State Department grant, the work examines the knowledge forms and public investment made precarious by these decisions.

The installation visualizes this potential loss of knowledge through Wikipedia articles related to defunded research topics. Articles are printed and mechanically altered using a pen plotter “redaction machine” that crosses out text corresponding to edits made after the funding cuts. Each redacted line represents a recent addition or revision, marking the continued evolution of public knowledge and the vulnerability of that process when institutional support is withdrawn.

Residual Lines (2025).
Bird’s-eye view of the redaction machine.
Close-up of the redaction cycle.





© Lauren Walker,  2026