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Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Majority of her works focus on issues of how surveillance, automation, and network culture affect our social relationships. She is the creator of p5.js! In 2011, McCarthy received her MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts. Now, she is an assistant professor at UCLA Design Media Arts. Along with her works being exhibited internationally, McCarthy is a Sundance Institute Fellow
Among all McCarthy’s projects, I really loved her project “24h HOST,” which was collaborated with Casper Schipper. It was created in November of 2017. I approached this project mainly, because I was intrigued by the use of space and colors in this project. Reading into “24h HOST,” I admired how it used algorithms and emphasized the future role of humans in AI driven world. This project is a small, 24 hour party. Unlike most parties, this 24 hour party is driven by a software that automates the event. Every 5 minutes, one guest departs and a new guest arrives. Throughout the 24 hours, the software system all continue to bring in an endless cycle of guests, which will tire the human host.
Above is the link to the project site, but it uses a non-English language; therefore, I relied on using the information from her website (below) and different articles.