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one of the requirements to graduate with a bachelor of fine arts is a bfa show. It is customary for students to attend other student's shows. everyone mills about pretending to be interested, then when they just can't fake it any more, it is customary to greet the artist and tell them that it is a fantastic show, regardless of whether it really is or not.
once i was one milling about a particularly bad show of a fellow student. an apple monitor perched upon a pedestal looped through a series of images and simple animation. my stomach dropped when i recognized six of the images were mine. unbeknownst to me, the student had found my diskette in the computer lab. finders keeper's loser's weepers. he had manipulated the images for the worse, and in my judgement, he had not altered them enough to make them his own.
at the time computer art was a new frontier, he was praised as a pioneer. in my opinion, a pioneer that steals shit.
this was one of the worst feelings of my life, it still bothers me now, 14 years later.
Posted by griff at March 18, 2003 09:13 AM