Lauren St. Clair (she/her) is pursuing a Dual Master of Archival and Library Studies (MAS/LIS) through the School of Information at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She works with Vanessa Lee at the VIVO Media Arts Centre, an artist-run centre, in the Crista Dahl Media Library & Archive (CDMLA), processing and describing video art primarily on magnetic tape. The CDMLA holds nearly 8,000 media works spanning 60 years of production by artists, activists, and independent producers. Lauren holds a BSc in Computer Science from UBC, where she worked (2019–20) as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on the SpokenWeb Project under Dr. Karis Shearer, focusing on accessibility, remediation, and making visible gendered divisions of labour in artistic communities through digital collection interfaces. She later designed and developed soundbox.ok.ubc.ca in collaboration with the SpokenWeb UBC team and collection community, guided by data feminist principles, minimal computing, and slow, consensual practices in onlining recordings and representing the collection’s literary community. Lauren is deeply interested in data sovereignty, infrastructures of solidarity, and their implications for community archive agency and sustainability. Outside of academia, she explores field recording, photography, poetry, communally governed technologies, and practices of repair.
