LAUREN
LAUREN is a human Alexa, watching over you in your home and controlling it for you. LAUREN will visit your home, deploy a series of custom smart devices (including cameras, mics, locks, faucets, and appliances), and remotely watch over you 24/7. Anything Alexa can do LAUREN can do better. LAUREN can understand you as a human and anticipate your needs and desires.
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.





























Writing
Feeling at Home: Between Human and AI (Immerse)
Press
The Guardian, LA Times, Hyperallergic, Observer, Schirn Magazine, Fast Company, Creative Applications, Y Combinator, PSFK
LAUREN Testimonials film and 360 photography by David Leonard. This project was supported in part by Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Lab Programs, with a grant from Turner Broadcasting, and UCLA. Exhibition view at Haus der elektronischen Künste, 2019, Photo: Franz Wamhof. Exhibition view at Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2020, Photo: Norbert Miguletz, Copyright Frankfurter Kunstverein, Photo: Mareike Tocha, Exhibition view at “House of Mirrors: Artificial Intelligence as Phantasm”, HMKV at Dortmunder U, Photo: Tanja Kanazir, Exhibition view Drugo More