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The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server

created 10.28.2009 (published 11.06.2009)

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The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server

Description

The ghost of Vannevar Bush hacked my server. He appears randomly, rendered as HTML text.

Rhizome Terms: Digital, Generative art, History, Information visualization, Internet, Net art

Artist Terms: Ghost, Hacked, Server, Vannevar Bush

Biography
Michael Demers has taught Digital Art and New Media courses at College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) since 2007. His own work incorporates culture and cultural identity in a synthesis of critical investigation and his own adolescent preoccupation with toys and other weird ephemera. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Artists Space (New York), and the Arlington Arts Center (Arlington, VA), and is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York). He received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University, an MFA from Ohio University, and a Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany.
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