Lindsay Howard is an American curator, writer, and new media scholar based in New York City whose work explores how the internet is shaping art and culture.
[6][7] Howard started her career by founding the exhibition program at 319 Scholes, an organization and collective of artists, curators, writers, hackers, coders, and activists based in Brooklyn, New York.
[18][19] Of the exhibition, critic Paddy Johnson wrote: “The collective picture formed was that of a unique community of makers, each using a lexicon of stock images, internet slang and animated gifs.
"[33] Howard is a founding member of Deep Lab, "cyberfeminist research" project,[34] along with Addie Wagenknecht, Kate Crawford, Claire L. Evans, Simone Browne, and Jillian York.
[39][40][41] Howard established an online commissioning program[42][43] where she worked with artists Shia Labeouf,[44] Sougwen Chung,[45] Eilis McDonald,[46] Alexandra Gorczynski,[47] Morehshin Allahyari,[48] and Jacob Ciocci.
Lab members, including Addie Wagenknecht, Chris Poole (or 'moot'), Geraldine Juárez, Jamie Wilkinson, Jonah Peretti, Becky Stern, and Golan Levin, convened during the exhibition for talks, workshops, and to produce new works.
[62] As part of the opening, graffiti artist KATSU tagged Eyebeam's façade with a fire extinguisher, accidentally splashing some of the pigment on Paula Cooper Gallery[63] which was “a perfect example of F.A.T.’s IRL trolling practices.”[64] During F.A.T.