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title: "Mara Mills, Xiaochang Li, Jessica Feldman, Michelle Pfeifer"
Description: "[Lauren](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/) talks us through some of her many works concerned with smart speakers, machine listening and social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. We discuss: [LAUREN](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/LAUREN), for which she attempted to become a human version of Alexa, [SOMEONE](https://lauren-mccarthy.com/SOMEONE), which won her the [Prix Ars Electronica 2020 / Interactive Art +](https://ars.electronica.art/homedelivery/en/winners-prix-interactive-art/), and a range of related works and political questions."
aliases: []
author: "Machine Listening"
date: "2021-03-01T00:00:00-05:00"
episode_image: "images/ml.gif"
explicit: "no"
hosts: ["james-parker", "joel-stern", "sean-dockray"]
images: ["images/ml.gif"]
news_keywords: []
podcast_duration: "38:55"
podcast_file:https://machinelistening.exposed/library/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy%20(23)/Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy%20-%20Lauren%20Lee%20McCarthy.mp3"
podcast_bytes: ""
youtube: ""
categories: []
series: []
tags: []
transcript: "http://git.metadada.xyz/machinelistening/curriculum/src/commit/eac335be3ed1cc0c47b8f3fd57339b837aab86ae/content/transcript/mccarthy.md"
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