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The Internet You Make

by David Moore

Four extremely cute photos of the dog Papaya at different ages, mugging shamelessly. Text: Dataset Name: Papaya Dataset Description: This collection includes 204 photographs of my dog Papaya
Aarati Akkapeddi

Above the near-deserted streets of Manhattan’s Financial District, one Sunday a few weeks back, a market was held high in a tower office building; but instead of buying artisanal butter or fresh-cut flowers, visitors could buy, and make, art derived from homegrown datasets. 

At one table, collaborators Maria Arenas, Sahal Hasan, and Zichen Yuan offered attendees a deal: trade a photo of a traffic cone—or a wheel, or a coat check stub—from your phone, in exchange for a print photo collage of those same things. 

Eight photos of wheels of different kinds from the recent 'Small Batch' show: a coiled metal chain, a car tires with elaborate hubcaps, the huge wheel of a mysterious machine, the pink and blue decorated wheel of a bike, a photo collage of a tire with a photographer's face and monitor visible in the middle
Photographs: collection of Zichen Yuan, via casual-typology.org

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