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Jason Salavon is an artist from Austin Texas born in 1970. The bulk of his work revolves around taking pre-existing media to create works of art. One of his works re-arranges the frames of movies such as Star Wars to create images that are arranged by luminosity in a radial pattern. Another of his works creates two images one called good, the other evil. The contents of the images are massive collections of thumbnails of things that are considered either good or evil based on google image searches.  I choose Salavon For the same reason I chose Burson. I’m interesting in Salavon’s work because he is an artist that attempts to understand society and the reasoning behind our collective ideas on morals and behaviors.

Takeshi Murata was born in Chicago Illinois, and is Rhode Island School of Design graduate (1997). His early works as shown in the book are heavily based on the manipulation of technology breaking stills from videos he creates. His later works involve more digital manipulation as he creates objects that appear to be realistic but break the laws of physics. I’m interested more in his later works. I like the idea of a digital sculpture not an animated piece or a movie but having a sculpted shape that only exist digitally. Can that be considered a sculpture if it cannot exist in a physical space? If not what do you call that kind of object?