ArtTech

Picturing the default.

This is the first time that computer technologies were used to make a printed picture, according to Bruce Wands. The image was created from the non-pictorial marks of the dot matrix printer that was the height of printing technology at the time. Here we're seeing another classic example, along with Duchamp and Nam Jun Paik, of playful encounters with materials yielding unexpected results because those materials are played against themselves, that is, against their default uses.

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