Colloquium is a collection of monthly interviews with international
​science and art practitioners in the SciArt Initiative community. 

Shawn Smith
Sculpture and 3D-Art
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Mia Cardenas: Tell us about your journey as an artist. How did your interest in exploring the intersections of technology and design through pixel art come about?

Shawn Smith: The digital work came out of a departure from using books as a raw material. In 2005, I worked with a programmer on a book project called Re-Frankenstein. I wanted to make a book that was based on an online image search. We developed a script that would do a find and replace procedure. The program would take a word from a text and swap it out with the most popular image associated with that word