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Lauren Lee McCarthy


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Projects
  1. LAUREN
  2. SOMEONE
  3. Follower
  4. 24h HOST
  5. Social Turkers
  6. Waking Agents
  7. I.A. Suzie
  8. Welcomer
  9. Friend Crawl
  10. M/WITM
  11. pplkpr
  12. The Changing Room
  13. Social Soul
  14. us+
  15. How We Act Together
  16. Crowdpilot
  17. Tools for Improved Social Interacting

Teaching/Pedagogy
  1. p5.js
  2. Smarter Home
  3. Network Media
  4. Performing User
  5. Senior Capstone
  6. Interactivity
  7. Conversation & Computation
  8. Social Hacking
  9. Critical APIs
  10. Computational Media

Archive
  1. Inactive Account Manager
  2. Facebook Mood Manipulator
  3. LOVEINT
  4. SCRIPT
  5. Conversacube
  6. Relatable
  7. Relation Station
  8. Patterned by Nature
  9. ReConsitution 2012
  10. CSIS Data Chandelier
  11. Energy of the Nation

Mark

SOMEONE


SOMEONE imagines a human version of Amazon Alexa, a smart home intelligence for people in their own homes. For a two month period in 2019, four participants’ homes around the United States were installed with custom-designed smart devices, including cameras, microphones, lights, and other appliances. 205 Hudson Gallery in NYC housed a command center where visitors could peek into the four homes via laptops, watch over them, and remotely control their networked devices. Visitors would hear smart home occupants call out for “Someone”—prompting the visitors to step in as their home automation assistant and respond to their needs. This video installation presents documentation from the initial performance on four screens throughout the space.

Press
 The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Engadget




Software and hardware development by Harvey Moon and Josh Billions. Interface development by Lauren McCarthy. Furniture design in collaboration with and fabrication by Lela Barclay de Tolly. Smart home participant collaborators include Valeria Haedo, Adelle Lin, Amanda McDonald Crowley, and Ksenya Samarskaya. SOMEONE was created with support from a Google Focused Research Award and the Harvestworks New Works Residency. It was first exhibited at 205 Hudson Gallery as part of Refiguring the Future. Screenshots by Lauren McCarthy, installation photos by Stan Narten.

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