Drive-Thru

Drive-Thru Lauren Lee McCarthy

Lauren Lee McCarthy is developing a performance that will unfold in participants' cars, with an AI voice assistant providing geolocative and narrative direction. Taking place in Los Angeles, the work will explore themes of navigated risk assessment, control, and shifting boundaries. McCarthy’s project is called Drive-Thru.

Lauren Lee McCarthy, I Heard Talking Is Dangerous, 2020, credit: Kat Kaye
Lauren Lee McCarthy, I Heard Talking Is Dangerous, 2020, credit: Kat Kaye

 

About the Artist

Lauren Lee McCarthy is a Chinese-American artist and computer programmer based in Los Angeles. McCarthy creates artworks that use a variety of media and techniques, including performance, artificial intelligence and programmed computer-based interaction. She created p5.js, an open-source and web-based version of the software Processing.

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