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Lauren Lee McCarthy


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LAUREN works
  1. LAUREN
  2. SOMEONE
  3. LAUREN Portable
  4. Exhibition: What can I do for you?
  5. Exhibition: You Can Say
  6. The Changing Room
  7. Waking Agents
  8. I.A. Suzie

Saliva works
  1. Exhibition: Bodily Autonomy (Saliva Bar)
  2. Saliva Retreat
  3. Saliva
  4. Are You the Perfect Specimen?
  5. Testing

Surrogate works
  1. Surrogate
  2. Exhibition: Data Relations
  3. Exhibition: Reproduction Otherwise
  4. Surrogate Performance
  5. Womb Walk

Autonomous works
  1. Voice In My Head
  2. Driverless
  3. Unlearning Language
  4. HOST
  5. Seeing Voices

Muted works
  1. Exhibition: I Heard Talking Is Dangerous
  2. Muted
  3. I heard TALKING IS DANGEROUS
  4. Good Night
  5. Good Morning
  6. What do you want me to say?
  7. Sleepover
  8. Later Date
  9. Appreciate You

Other recent works
  1. Follower
  2. Social Turkers
  3. Vibe Check
  4. I’m glad you asked
  5. Autoreply
  6. pplkpr
  7. us+

Teaching & pedagogy
  1. p5.js
  2. Open Source Software Toolkits for the Arts Report
  3. Web We Want (W3C TPAC)
  4. Smarter Home
  5. Network Media
  6. Performing User
  7. Senior Capstone
  8. Disability, Design, and the Web
  9. Interactivity
  10. Conversation & Computation
  11. Social Hacking
  12. Critical APIs
  13. Computational Media
  14. Introduction to Programming for the Visual Arts (Free online course)

Archive
  1. Beyond the Breakdown
  2. How We Act Together
  3. Wake Words
  4. Friend Crawl
  5. Welcomer
  6. M/WITM
  7. The Changing Room: Brisbane
  8. Social Soul
  9. You Can Say
  10. Tools for Improved Social Interacting
  11. Inactive Account Manager
  12. Facebook Mood Manipulator
  13. LOVEINT
  14. SCRIPT

Mark

Conversation and Computation


NYU ITP Spring 2015
Class website
Syllabus

Course Description

Technology is becoming a part of every conversation we have. What influence does it have, and how might it be further leveraged to create new possibilities? This class explores various ways conversation may be analyzed, generated, and affected by computation. Specifically, we will study methods of linguistic analysis (LIWC, LSM, sentiment analysis) and body language analysis (face tracking, expression detection, Kinect). We will experiment with conversation automation (markov chains, chatbots, email scripting, social media APIs), and building software apps (Google Hangout apps, browser extensions, Skype API, Twilio API, webRTC) and physical devices (Arduino, RPi) for augmenting and affecting conversation. Finally, we will look at more public interventions, involving performance and text displays.

The class will be based around three month-long projects, complemented by readings and shorter research exercises. This will be further contextualized by conversation analysis ideas from sociology and psychology, performance studies, other artists working with these themes.

Main Topics

Linguistic analysis
Scripting, automation, and bots
Physical augmentation
Physical analysis
Physical alternatives
Performing conversation
Public conversation

Selected Readings

Sara Hendren, All Technology Is Assistive
Ryan Budish, What My Hearing Aid Taught Me About The Future Of Wearables, The Atlantic
Bucher, Taina, 2014, About a bot: Hoax, fake, performance art, M/C Journal, vol 17, no. 3
Leonard Richardson, Bots Should Punch Up
Jacob Gaboury, Rhizome, A Queer History of Computing
Golan Levin, Computer Vision for Artists and Programmers
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications. Richard Szeliski. September 3, 2010 draft c 2010 Springer.
Chloë Bass, Hyperallergic, How Writing Is Like Performance, November 2013
Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1967.

Student Work

Chang Liu, Oryan Inbar, Ava Huang, Social Clinic


Chang Liu, Oryan Inbar, Scent of Conversation


Manxue Wang, David Cihelna, Craig Pickard, Karthik Pantajali, this.mirror


Sam Lavigne, 3 DEGREES OF SEPARATION FROM THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-PRISON-DATA-SURVEILLANCE STATE


Sam Lavigne, CSPAN-5


Melissa Kang, Soni Hahn, Spit Shield


Ross Goodwin, word.camera

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