This series of tweets highlights recent structural changes to the Recreating the Past (RTP) class in response to student feedback.
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This new, experimental iteration of RTP seeks to foreground artists of varying cultural backgrounds to challenge a computational art canon often presented as dominated by white men.
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RTP has been taught at SFPC for 7 years, where participants take a close look at artists who have created work using computational techniques while discussing their approaches, tools, and their social and poetic underpinnings.
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The first artist in this series is Hassan Sharif (1951 - 2016). Sharif was an Emirati artist, writer, educator and critic who began work in the 1970s.pic.twitter.com/RoD6gi0ArV
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Sharif's 'Semi-Systems' was influenced by Constructivist drawings and Fluxus in the early 1980s. This approach of repetition and variation was applied to a series of geometric and linear drawings, using arbitrary mathematical rules.pic.twitter.com/EduPRRnHZf
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