UC-San Diego: Media Artist Lauren Lee McCarthy Confronts the Boundaries of Bio-Surveillance in New Exhibit
January 10, 2024
January 10, 2024
LA JOLLA, California, Jan. 10 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news release:
Algorithms seem to follow us wherever we go, relentlessly recording and subtly influencing the relationships we have with others. Media artist Lauren Lee McCarthy is fascinated by the potential consequences--a diminishing boundary between self and systems, the embracing of efficiency at the cost of privacy and the cultural impacts when values are imparted in code.
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Algorithms seem to follow us wherever we go, relentlessly recording and subtly influencing the relationships we have with others. Media artist Lauren Lee McCarthy is fascinated by the potential consequences--a diminishing boundary between self and systems, the embracing of efficiency at the cost of privacy and the cultural impacts when values are imparted in code.
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