Four people are allowing strangers to control their smart homes

mood · Feb 8, 2019

Four people are allowing strangers to control their smart homes
February 8, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/08/lauren-mccarthy-someone-alexa-artist/

Each home -- three in Brooklyn, one in San Francisco -- will be "live" for two hours a day. During that time, they can only control their smart devices by calling for "someone," the same way one calls for Alexa, Siri or Google.

This project is called SOMEONE and is the brainchild of Lauren McCarthy, an artist and assistant professor at UCLA's design media arts department. It's part of Refiguring the Future, an exhibition by REFRESH and Eyebeam [...]

In SOMEONE, the privacy critique is clear. By giving us the all-seeing eye and levers of control that we've delegated to smart assistants, we can question the corporate surveillance we invite into the intimacy of our homes.
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