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Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
04/04/2018Created by Lauren McCarthy, “LAUREN” is an online experiment where she attempts to become a human version of Amazon Alexa, a smart home intelligence for people in their own homes. The project will take place as an online three day performance that begins with an installation of a series of custom designed networked smart devices in peoples’ homes.
29/08/2017Created by Lauren McCarthy, “The Changing Room” installation invites participants to browse and select one of hundreds of emotions, then evoking that emotion in them and everyone in the space through a layered environment of light, visuals, sound, text, and interaction exhibited over a multi-level, many-sided display.
07/03/2017Delving into the glorious ambiguity of human communication, “TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)” is a group exhibition at Oakland’s B4BEL4B Gallery that explores text and language.
12/09/2016In the social media age, one’s importance or relevance is typically measured in online followers—as that number goes up, the level of validation we feel does too. But how would a ‘real life follower’ change those dynamics? Created by Lauren McCarthy, Follower is an uncanny performance project that examines our feelings towards attention and surveillance.
09/02/2016Created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
20/01/2015AIT (“Social Hacking”), taught for the first time this semester by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald at NYU’s ITP, explored the structures and systems of social interactions, identity, and self representation as mediated by technology.
17/12/2013Review of the exhibition last month at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea – a collection of 12 works questioning the essential meaning and significance of the data world.
Tags: ACT / ACT Festival / Asia Culture Center / Daito Manabe / data / database / Digital / Evala / Events / exhibition / featured / Gwangju / Harshit Agrawal / information / Jeon Joonho / Jonas Jongejan / Kazunao Abe / knowledge / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / learning / making / Marko Peljhan / Matthew Biederman / Moon Kyungwon / Pierce Warnecke / privacy / review / Ryoji Suzuki / Ryuichi Sakamoto / Sang-won Leigh / Satoshi Furuya / security / Sho Miyake / south korea / technology / Tomas Saraceno / visualization
Created by Lauren McCarthy, “LAUREN” is an online experiment where she attempts to become a human version of Amazon Alexa, a smart home intelligence for people in their own homes. The project will take place as an online three day performance that begins with an installation of a series of custom designed networked smart devices in peoples’ homes.
Tags: aframe / alexa / camera / data / Events / home intelligence / installation / Lauren McCarthy / network / ownership / performance / privacy / smart homes / stream / webvr
Created by Lauren McCarthy, “The Changing Room” installation invites participants to browse and select one of hundreds of emotions, then evoking that emotion in them and everyone in the space through a layered environment of light, visuals, sound, text, and interaction exhibited over a multi-level, many-sided display.
Tags: ars electronica / artwork / creativeappsnet / emotion / installation / Lauren McCarthy / residency / text / transmit / typography / unity / visuals
Delving into the glorious ambiguity of human communication, “TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read)” is a group exhibition at Oakland’s B4BEL4B Gallery that explores text and language.
Tags: B4BEL4B Gallery / Benedikt Groß / exhibition / Gelare Khoshgozaran / installation / Joanna Cheung / Joey Lee / Jono Brandel / Lauren McCarthy / Matthias Dörfelt / Min Choi / Mindy Seu / Morehshin Allahyari / oakland / Tim Roseborough
In the social media age, one’s importance or relevance is typically measured in online followers—as that number goes up, the level of validation we feel does too. But how would a ‘real life follower’ change those dynamics? Created by Lauren McCarthy, Follower is an uncanny performance project that examines our feelings towards attention and surveillance.
Tags: app / approval / AppStore / download / follow / internet / ios / Lauren McCarthy / media / social media / surveillance
Created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly.
Tags: AppStore / data / download / free / heart rate / ios / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / monitoring / provocation / speculation / wearables
AIT (“Social Hacking”), taught for the first time this semester by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald at NYU’s ITP, explored the structures and systems of social interactions, identity, and self representation as mediated by technology.
Tags: api / hacking / iPhone / itp / Kyle McDonald / Lauren McCarthy / mechanical turk / method / OpenPaths / process / social / teaching / twitter