Blog 9

This week’s emphasis was on women, non binary, and underrepresented people in computational art. A lot of the work was really cool and the artists were all people with diverse paths and specialties. The person I chose to focus on was Kate Hollenbach, I really enjoyed her work because her art is really focused around the relationship between the user and the thing or algorithm or whatever. Phonelovesyoutoo was a project I found hilarious. The premise was pretty simple, we spend time looking at our phones, what if our phones spent time looking at us. Hollenbach programmed her phone to record a video every time she unlocked it and was using it. 30 to 90 minutes of footage a day for a month. What came out was a collection of videos of staring blankly at the screen almost always in that double chin craneing the neck at an unhealthy angle. Pure relatable gold.