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0 pointsbigyabai2mo ago0 comments

Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757

0 pointsbigyabai2mo ago0 comments

Anything can make the cut at MOMA. The gigantic disaster of OLPC is enshrined as "art" there too: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/155757

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razorbeamz2mo ago· 2 in thread

If you think that a Mac or an OLPC is not art, you have a very narrow definition of art.

amelius2mo ago

Then the Franklin machine is also art.

razorbeamz2mo ago

It is.

WillAdams2mo ago· 2 in thread

It was an interesting design, well-suited to the target audience and presents quite well in person (a co-worker bought two, one donated, the other for his personal use when hiking).

bigyabaiOP2mo ago

By those qualifications we could very well nominate a Franklin machine for exhibit.

WillAdams2mo ago

The OLPC had innovative features developed by the designers --- what innovative features which were not copied did the Franklin have?

To turn things back to where we started, can you find one article which criticizes MOMA for including an Apple Macintosh along with its Picasso?

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