CAC · Presents | Smart home performance: LAUREN
Date:2021.07.03（Sat.）
Time:13:00 – 15:00
Language:English/Chinese
Venue:Chronus Art Center
Building No.18, No.50 Moganshan Rd
© Lauren Lee McCarthy
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition AI Delivered：The Abject on July 3 at Chronus Art Center, participating artist Lauren Lee McCarthy will present the performance LAUREN.
LAUREN is a human version of Alexa, a smart home intelligence for people in their own homes. In this exhibition, LAUREN is presented as a performative piece that begins with the interaction between an audience and a series of custom designed networked smart devices (including cameras, microphones, akettle, speakers and other appliances). The artist remotely watches over the person residing in the cozy home-like evrionement and controls all aspects of it. The artist aims to be better than an AI as a person who can understand the residents and anticipate their needs. LAUREN is a meditation on the smart home, the tensions between intimacy vs privacy, convenience vs agency they present, and the role of human labor in the future of automation.
The performance will be divided into 8 time slots. Each one lasts 20 minutes during which a participant will immerse in a bedroom-like environment to negotiate boundaries of the smart home intelligence system via his/her interaction with the smart devices custom designed by the artist.
Each participant will receive a special gift package including a pair of slippers and an eye mask!
Lauren Lee McCarthy，LAUREN，2017，展览现场 ©艺术家，Frankfurter Kunstverein
The performance LAUREN will subsequently take place on September 4 and October 16 respectively during the run of the exhibition AI Delivered：The Abject. Please stay in tune!
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an LA-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, andalgorithmic living. She is the creator of p5.js, and Co-Director of the Processing Foundation. Lauren’s work has been exhibited internationally, at places such as The Barbican Centre, Ars Electronica, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Haus der elektronischen Künste, SIGGRAPH, Onassis Cultural Center, IDFA DocLab, Science Gallery Dublin, Seoul Museum of Art. She has received numerous honors including a Creative Capital Award, Ars Electronica Golden Nica, Sundance Fellowship, Eyebeam Fellowship, and grants from the Knight Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Rhizome. Lauren is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts.