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I saw this title and really hoped that it wouldn't be about this Katsu piece. For me it represents the worst of the intersection between art and tech, in that it isn't doing anything new or interesting in either fields, but riding solely off the fumes of 'daring' to combine the two.

I'd assume the audience of Silicon Valley Contemporary were savvy enough to see through galleries thin attempts to pander to them with stuff like this and "We accept bitcoin!" signs. I think SV is being looked at as a bit of a sitting duck due to the combo of huge amounts of money + generally small frame of reference when it comes to modern & contemporary art amongst its inhabitants (I think that's fair to say). It's the sort of situation art advisors dream about.

[mturmon]

Well-informed and well-put. May I ask, are you connected to the art world somehow? I had the same reaction to this piece (our comments were much the same, and made at the same time), perhaps because my wife shows in LA and I've inherited her skepticism of this kind of showboating.