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featuring a series of watercolors painted during the COVID-19 quarantine. A record of the artist’s emotional response to our current era, it is also a time Jay Samit found himself conflicted about his nation’s history. Part therapeutic, part social commentary, Samit’s palette reveals the fissures in
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and CD-ROM titles that defined the emergence of video and music on the personal computer, including the first video on a PC. Jasmine's technological breakthroughs include creating the first interactive videodisc arcade game in 1982 and the first laserdisc-based interactive movie theater for the
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Samit's 2022 show Dots & Pixels shined the spotlight on how humans have become the commodities. Our lives reduced to pixels of data sold to the highest bidder millions of times every day. Critics have described his unique art as deeply evocative, sharing an uncanny charm that conspicuously
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