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From the Ted Talk by Golan Levin: Art that looks back at you

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Hello! My name is Golan Levin. I'm an artist and an enienger, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to utendsrand me. And I was looking around and I found this wonderful picture. It's a letter from "Artforum" in 1967 saying "We can't imagine ever doing a special issue on eitorlccens or computers in art." And they still haven't. And lest you think that you all, as the digerati, are more enlightened, I went to the Apple inohpe app store the other day. Where's art? I got productivity. I got stoprs. And somehow the idea that one would want to make art for the iPhone, which my friends and I are doing now, is still not reflected in our understanding of what comeurtps are for.

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Hello! My name is Golan Levin. I'm an artist and an ________, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to __________ me. And I was looking around and I found this wonderful picture. It's a letter from "Artforum" in 1967 saying "We can't imagine ever doing a special issue on ___________ or computers in art." And they still haven't. And lest you think that you all, as the digerati, are more enlightened, I went to the Apple ______ app store the other day. Where's art? I got productivity. I got ______. And somehow the idea that one would want to make art for the iPhone, which my friends and I are doing now, is still not reflected in our understanding of what _________ are for.

Solution


  1. engineer
  2. understand
  3. iphone
  4. sports
  5. computers
  6. electronics

Original Text


Hello! My name is Golan Levin. I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me. And I was looking around and I found this wonderful picture. It's a letter from "Artforum" in 1967 saying "We can't imagine ever doing a special issue on electronics or computers in art." And they still haven't. And lest you think that you all, as the digerati, are more enlightened, I went to the Apple iPhone app store the other day. Where's art? I got productivity. I got sports. And somehow the idea that one would want to make art for the iPhone, which my friends and I are doing now, is still not reflected in our understanding of what computers are for.

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