Lauren McCarthy
7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 4, 2017 by Lauren McCarthy · across every show →
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Sep 4, 2017 positive
McCarthy met her husband when he participated in her livestreamed dating project
“I actually met my husband through one of these projects which is, I was, when I was doing the Social Turkus thing, he was actually happened to be one of the people watching and giving advice on, like, the last date And then like wrote to me afterwards and I wa…”
Sep 4, 2017 negative
Consensus pricing makes the traditional art market hostile to digital art
“I think part of the difficulty comes out of just, like, the market around buying and selling art is very conservative, because you're agreeing that this particular object has this value that, you know, and it's all kind of consensus-based, so there, it's very …”
Sep 4, 2017
McCarthy monitors participants' home cameras to act as a human Amazon Alexa
“I'm trying to become
like Amazon Alexa.
So, but I'm making a service, it's called Lauren.
and so the idea is that I will come into your home and set up all these devices and cameras
and then I'll watch you and, ah, you know, control your home for you and tr…”
Sep 4, 2017 positive
McCarthy: Art world must adapt commercial models as artists adopt technology
“Every artist is starting to use technology now, like, seeing these, you know, I teach in a program that uses technology, but seeing the grad students in fine arts, like, they're all, like, making GIFs, and using computers, and using, like, three D software, so…”
Sep 4, 2017 positive
McCarthy: Humor creates reflective spaces for tech critique without lecturing
“I find humor like a way to do that, because, you know, you laugh, and then you kind of, there's always some truth to every joke and some people it's less like, let me lecture you about this thing we should all think about, and we're like, here's something ridi…”
Sep 4, 2017
McCarthy: Livestreamed browsing social media of 1,000 backers for art project
“So I asked them for all their social media handles that they wanted to give, and then for all, there were like a thousand backers total. I spent five minutes looking through all their social media, and so I set up this system where I'd just like queue them up,…”
Sep 4, 2017 neutral
McCarthy crowdsourced live coaching for her blind dates via Mechanical Turk
“I went on a series of blind dates with people that I met on the internet, and then I sort of discreetly streamed the Video of the date to the web. And then I paid people through the service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, small amounts of money to watch the dat…”