For this story of Meet our Guest, Alana Kushnir interviewed Lucy McRae, an artist, filmmaker, inventor and body architect. McRae's work explores the cultural and emotional impacts science and cutting edge technology have on redesigning the body. She works across installation, film, photography, AI, genetic engineering and edible technology.

McRae has exhibited at museums, film festivals, institutes such as MIT, Ars Electronica and NASA and science forums across the world. Selected major artworks have been exhibited at Science Museum London, Centre Pompidou and the Venice Architecture Biennale. She is a visiting professor at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles; and is recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

In this story, Guest Work Agency intern and Serpentine Legal Lab Research Associate, Jasper Salomonsz, shares his take on the Serpentine Research & Development (R&D) Platform’s recent release of Legal Lab Report 1: Art x Tech/Science Collaborations. Highlighting some of the key legal issues facing artists, technologists, arts institutions, tech companies and others when collaborating, this story offers a useful summary on the challenges faced by cutting edge creative practice.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art business – we want to provide you with useful insights, resources and tips on the day to day running of an art-oriented business.

In this Art of Business story our friends Rachael Hart and Jeremy Wortsman, co-founders of new art finance start-up Hoverboard Finance, share their innovative solution to the challenges of being paid on time for creative work.

For this story of Meet our Guest, we interviewed Nancy Baker Cahill, a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) app developed together with Drive Studio to challenge traditional experiences of public art, and to increase access to fine art through AR. She was named one of ARTnews’ The Deciders who will shape the Art World in 2021.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally.

In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegal Associate, Mia Schaumann, report on the judgment of the Federal Court of Australia in a trade mark and copyright case which considered the replica of the iconic Fearless Girl statue, a County Court of Victoria finding of misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to inauthentic artworks, a US Court of Appeals finding of copyright infringement against the Andy Warhol Foundation plus more.

For this issue of Meet our Guest, Guest Work Agency & Guest Club Director and Founder Alana Kushnir interviewed James Vivian.

James is the Founder of James Vivian, which has been delivering tailor-made dermal therapy solutions for more than a decade. James is also an avid art collector and Guest Club Art Supporter member, with a true knack for collecting pieces by emerging artists.

For this story of Meet our Guest, we interviewed Yayoi Shionoiri, an art lawyer and the Executive Director of the Chris Burden Estate and the Nancy Rubins Studio, where she is responsible for stewarding Burden's art historical legacy and promoting Rubins's artistic practice.

Yayoi also serves as U.S. Alliance Partner to City Lights Law, a Japanese law firm that represents creators, innovators, and artists, and as an Outside Board Director to Startbahn, an art technology company that is seeking to bring greater reliability to transactions in the art ecosystem. She was recently featured in Art She Says' Power List: Top Female Attorney's in the Art World and The Art Gorgeous' 10 Trailblazing Women Working in Art Law. Find her on Instagram here and at her website here.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and legal reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally.

In this story, we profile an Australian trade mark case which considered the branding of craft beer, the unanimous decision of a New York zoning board, which acknowledged that artist Nick Cave’s outdoor art installation is not an illegal sign, the US Supreme Court’s rejection of a Nazi-era restitution claim and more.