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Lauren Lee McCarthy


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LAUREN works
  1. LAUREN
  2. SOMEONE
  3. LAUREN Portable
  4. Anyone Home?
  5. Exhibition: What can I do for you?
  6. Exhibition: You Can Say
  7. The Changing Room
  8. Waking Agents
  9. 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
  6. Training Set

Autonomous works
  1. Auto
  2. AUTO TUNE
  3. Voice In My Head
  4. HOST
  5. Unlearning Language
  6. Seeing Voices
  7. Auto Research & Process

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. Performing User
  6. Disability, Design, and the Web
  7. Conversation & Computation
  8. Social Hacking
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AUTO TUNE

Lauren Lee McCarthy & Casey Reas
Displayed on a programmable LED dot matrix road sign, AUTO TUNE is an anthem about tensions between autonomy, control, and artificial intelligence. The work runs ambiently as a two-minute sequence of hand-drawn, low-resolution phrases. The looping sequence of poetic commands and provocations—“BE AUTO,” “GET LOOSE,” “AUTO TUNE”—evoke the rhythms of highway signage and algorithmic suggestion. The work can be reconfigured to run on any LED dot matrix road sign.