Collaboration with Maryann Tan about our troubled relationship to smartphones and the workers who suffer making them. This project was for the Samsung Masterpieces digital art project – invited artists were given Samsung tablets and asked to create work on them. It was rejected by Samsung. I’ve blogged about it in-depth here and here. The… Read more
Q & A between Sharon and Maryann about their collaboration ‘My Samsung, My Best Fiend’ for Samsung Masterpieces digital art platform. It was rejected based on legal grounds. Read about it here. Sharon: When I approached you with the idea of collaborating, I’d already done some research and found out about Samsung workers getting cancer.… Read more
The first half of this post is written by me. The second half by my collaborator on this project, Maryann Tan. Sharon: In April, a curator invited me to be part of a new digital art project sponsored by Samsung. It’s called Masterpieces, an online platform to crowd-source and showcase digital art from Asia. At… Read more
