Claudia Hart

A FEAST OF UNEARTHLY DELIGHTS
by Rupert Goldsworthy



The New York artist Claudia Hart, who teaches digital art at the Art Institute of Chicago, has made a brilliant discovery. The synthetic foods that are otherworldly commonplaces in the American diet, things like Cheetos, Maraschino cherries and Jello, have a phosphorescent kinship with the digital MacIntosh apple, a kind of cybernetic ur-fruit found across all manner of virtual platforms.

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