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:: "Engineers Just Wanna Make Art" ::
From Wired News:
PALO ALTO, California -- Conventional computer interface design is all about control, not real interactivity, but that doesn't stop new-media artist Jim Campbell from trying.
Campbell is a leading figure in exploring computer technology as an art form. An MIT graduate with dual degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics, Campbell also holds more than a dozen patents on video-image processing, and standard-definition and high-definition television.
The Palo Alto Arts Center's Jim Campbell exhibition, which runs through April 25, spans more than a decade of the artist's work.
Campbell worked as a video repairman, filmmaker and television-chip designer before delving into electronic art in the late 1980s.
"From the beginning, art was a balance for the engineering," Campbell said. "It was a different way of thinking that was not so logical and cold."
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