Voice in My Head:
This film delves into the transformative potential of a groundbreaking software, designed to replicate your unique voice, tone, and inner dialogue. At its core, it explores how individuals can train a computer to “speak like you, to you,” facilitating a profound and intimate dialogue with the self.
Developed by the visionary artist Lauren McCarthy and technologist Kyle McDonald, the software serves as both a mirror and a provocateur. Their collaboration merges cutting-edge technology with a deep understanding of human behavior and expression, crafting a tool that goes beyond utility to become a work of art in itself.
I.A. Suzie — Virtual Care Platform, Interactive Documentary & Durational Performance
What does it mean to become the algorithm? For one week, we didn’t theorize about AI caregiving — we built it and lived inside it. I.A. Suzie is a virtual care platform that coordinates multiple remote caregivers to support people as they age in place, distributing presence, attention, and responsibility across a human network mediated by technology.
The film documents the platform’s first real-world playtest: my collaborator Lauren Lee McCarthy and I deployed a custom smart home infrastructure inside 80-year-old Mary Ann’s home in North Carolina, watching over her 24 hours a day, speaking to her, controlling her environment, and capturing everything through 360 cameras with panoptic views across her home. She named the system I.A. Suzie.
Supported by a Journalism 360 Award from the Google News Initiative, the Knight Foundation, the Online News Association, and UCLA.
Toilets Not Temples
Toilets Not Temples addresses themes of global distribution, agriculture, marketing and trade. Follow me, filmmaker David Leonard on the journey of food from farm to plate, through France, Norway, India and the USA. Commissioned by the Bergen Kunstall and exhibited as part of the film program at Art Basil, and is in the perminant collection of MMK