Laurie Anderson

Anderson Cooper speaks with Laurie Anderson about her 5-decade career as an artist, singer, composer and storyteller, and visits her largest-ever U.S. ...

No. No. And this was said to me by a cryptologist: "If you think technology is going to solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems." Laurie Anderson: Half of it is really terrible poetry. You can ask it a question or give it a photograph, and the algorithm creates an original poem in the words and speech pattern of Laurie Anderson. I said, "OK." And, and I was like, "I kind of like this guy." Laurie Anderson: I knew enough about the pop world to know it was extremely fickle. Laurie Anderson: He said, "Let's go get, let's go get a coffee." Laurie Anderson: I did, yeah. I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Laurie Anderson: I used to say multimedia artist, and that was ridiculous. Laurie Anderson: I had a lot of equipment that would loop things. If you've heard of Laurie Anderson at all, it may be because of this eight-minute-long song she recorded back in 1980. A major exhibition of her work is on display at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D. C.  Ladies and gentlemen, Laurie Anderson.