2025/07/12

Lawrence Lek and Lauren Lee McCarthy Get AI Art Right, Critic Argues

● 12/07/2025
“Neither of these projects use AI to generate visuals or other media. They take AI as an object of a thought experiment. And I think it’s telling that two artists who make very different kinds of work arrived at the self-driving car as a central image.”
– Critic Brian Droitcour, praising two LA showings, Lawrence Lek’s solo exhibition “NOX: High-Rise” at the Hammer and Lauren Lee McCarthy’s LACMA performance of Auto, for considering AI through the prism of everyday machinery. “The car is a big, dangerous machine that people get in all the time. We already outsource our movement to it.”
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