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One of the occupational hazards that comes with being a professor is that sometimes, students may forget that on top of being a teacher, their instructors are also quite literally experts in their field. In light of this revelation, the CU Art Museum is showcasing its quadrennial Faculty Exhibition to remind students that not only […]

Computers have learned to use language better than some people can, but they’ve picked up many of our bad habits as well. What’s to be done?

The term “net.art” is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an anonymous e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make out just one legible term—“net.art”—which he began using to talk about online art and communications. Spreading like a virus among certain interconnected Internet communities, the term was quickly enlisted to describe a variety of everyday activities. Net.art stood for communications and graphics, e-m...