SUSIE LEE, CEO AND FOUNDER OF SIREN, AND DESIGN DIRECTOR KATRINA HESS Who wouldnt want to try a dating app made by these two?
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  • SUSIE LEE, CEO AND FOUNDER OF SIREN, AND DESIGN DIRECTOR KATRINA HESS Who wouldn't want to try a dating app made by these two?

Susie Lee won the Stranger Genius Award for Art in 2010, for her incredible sculptures, installations, and films uniting the physical and the digital. Four years later, she's still bringing bodies in contact with screens in new ways. The difference in her newest project, the female-centric dating app Siren—which the artist invented from the ground up, assembling a team of designers and engineers including as many women as possible (and that's not easy in the tech world)—is that Siren also unites bodies with each other.

Okay, there might be other differences between Siren and a standalone artwork or gallery/museum exhibition, it's true. I'll probably write about differences and similarities after Siren launches. It will be fascinating to see how Siren works, who it works for, and what's the artist's perspective on it all.

Siren is set to go live in a few weeks. But Saturday at 5:30 at Northwest Film Forum, you have a chance to test-drive the app and meet film director Megan Griffiths—another Genius woman supportive of Siren—at a reception that precedes the screening of Griffiths' new film Lucky Them.

It's a big night for sexy creative women, frankly. Get out there.

Here's the trailer for Lucky Them.