Bill Thompson, BBC Tech Art Critic at the Venice Biennale

http://www.thebillblog.com/billblog/index.php/2009/06/12/pixels-and-paintbrushes/

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“While there was a lot of interesting art, I saw little that attempted to explore our use of or reliance on technology itself, and the only two pieces I encountered that seemed to have any connection to digital technology for its own sake were rather disappointing as neither was actually working when I visited.

“The animatronic cat in the German pavilion didn’t move at all, (((the underplayed pathos of this is te