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This video immediately reminded me of conversations I had had with a friend of mine. He was explaining his field of study in college. First off, he begins by saying that he is a cartographer. I.e., he studies and draws maps. This conversation occurred within a group of peers. One friend made the comment, "Well, isn't everything already mapped out?", another chimed in, "Yeah, so what would you really do in the workplace?". He laughed and explained that he got this reaction frequently. And that no, it's not really as simple as it seems and it's not an individual, isolated profession. He told of us an internship he had working for the city of Baltimore. His position included mapping out neighborhoods including concentrations of crime areas, vacant housing, and schools. This allowed the city office to identify where community centers were needed to hopefully decrease the rate of children and adolescents entering into crime. This is a primary example of data

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence." In keeping with the postmodern tradition, my project takes the emotion of the statement and transforms it into a visual display. The composition of the work is most close to a rule of thirds. There are varying different lines separating the piece into different sections, segregating some themes while creating a setting of congruence for others. The focal point of the piece is the white robot playing the violin. Though this figure is set back behind two barriers, it is the brightest color of the image thus the eyes are drawn there. One then follows the orange line to right noticing the contrast of the black and white figure on a colorful background with a warm explosion. Returning to the thick vertical line, one's eye path moves up toward the largest piece of the composition. Using Magritte's Midnight Marriage (1926) while adding a Black Right's movement individual