Visual Art Dec 10, 2014 at 4:00 am

What Only Artists Can Teach Us About Technology, Data, and Surveillance

The University of Washington and Microsoft Research are making big investments in uncategorizable, emerging-media work. What are their artists stumbling upon?

Jen Graves
a PhD candidate at the University of Washington's DXARTS, and his controversial drawing machine. A mechanized pen is suspended on a rickety pulley system. A separate camera and computer send input that directs the pen. Kelly O
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So Robert Twomey has made a shitty version of a desktop printer. Great.
Franky123 on December 11, 2014 at 8:24 AM Report this
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No, he made a crappy desktop printer and is calling the resulting product art.

Huge difference.
libertine on December 11, 2014 at 2:38 PM Report this
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You're right. My bad.
Franky123 on December 12, 2014 at 2:34 PM Report this
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'one donor responded viciously, openly declaring his art "an abomination."'

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss any work that generates severe reactions like this one.
nortolev on January 18, 2015 at 1:43 PM Report this

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