Opening: Saturday 8 March 2025, 18:00
In LAUREN: Anyone Home? the artist, as if a human version of Alexa, watches over and controls the house of the visual installation’s visitors. The experience kicks off with the installation of smart devices, such as cameras, microphones and other home appliances, which transform the space into a fully connected smart home. Unlike ordinary smart home technologies, LAUREN: Anyone Home? focuses on human presence, enhancing the simple algorithms with perception and intuition. It functions as a human-centered digital assistant, balancing between intimacy and privacy, convenience and agency, while also foregrounding the role of human labor amidst an increasingly automatized world. Through this experience LAUREN: Anyone Home? invites the audience to contemplate on their relationship with technology and the control it exercises upon their personal space, offering a different glance at what “smart” technology could truly be. The work demonstrates the ways through which Artificial Intelligence could trigger a meaningful dialogue. The work was bestowed with the Human AI Art Award, a joint initiative by TELEKOM and the Bonn Kunstmuseum. The award highlights how Artificial Intelligence could reshape our understanding of creativity and technology, by supporting works that intertwine art with AI aiming to influence or change the way technology is being used and perceived today. Mc Carthy’s work epitomizes the award’s mission, as it adopts a critical approach over Artificial Intelligence, while reimagining how humanity, nature and technology could co-exist.
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Supported by: 27th International Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts
Curated by: Christiana Kazakou
Installation design: Ben Evans James
Studio assistant: Wylie Kasai
Exhibition production: Foss Productions
Free admission. Working Hours: 10:00-22:00
Performances’ programme: Monday-Friday 18:00-21:00, Saturday-Sunday 11:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00