The Music Center’s Black Bar Social: Host
Provocateur: Lauren Lee McCarthy
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
RSVPs are now closed.
Step into the future at HOST, the fourth installment in The Music Center’s Black Bar Social series, where the boundaries between human and artificial intelligence blur in a groundbreaking event!
With the rise of AI-generated content, technology now permeates our consciousness like never before. But what happens when AI starts to influence our thoughts directly? Imagine a world where every interaction and decision are guided by an AI-enhanced voice tailored to your preferences.
Join us at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for an immersive event where every guest becomes the host. Upon arrival, you will receive an earpiece that connects you to an artificial intelligence. As you mingle with other guests and explore the dynamic atmosphere of the party, the AI voice becomes your constant companion, offering commentary and direction every step of the way.
Get ready to challenge your perceptions and embark on a journey where technology and humanity intersect in unexpected ways.
Please note that this artwork makes use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Whisper tools to sample your speech and use it to generate responses during the experience. OpenAI may securely retain your data for up to 30 days for internal quality assurance purposes only. OpenAI will not use any of your data for training their models. The artist will not retain or share any of your audio or any transcripts of it. The artist may retain the resulting text generated by ChatGPT for documentation purposes.
About the Provocateur
Lauren Lee McCarthy
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation and algorithmic living. She creates performances that invite viewers to engage. To remote control her dates. To be followed. To welcome her in as their human smart home. To attend a party hosted by artificial intelligence. Lauren is the creator of p5.js, an open-source creative coding platform that prioritizes inclusion and access, and a professor at UCLA Design Media Arts. She has been recognized as an United States Artist Fellow, a Sundance Fellow, an Eyebeam Fellow, and is a grantee of both LACMA Art+Tech and Creative Capital.
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