Video: Tabor Robak in conversation with Simon Castets (2014)

In this terrific 30+ minute interview, artist Tabor Robak discusses his practice with the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art in New York director Simon Castets. Robak talks about hishis creative process and his work, which was featured in The St. Petersburg Paradox exhibition. Commissioned for this exhibition, A* illustrates the hypothetical personality of a video game that has self-consciousness. The conversation took place in August 2014.

Tabor Robak was born in 1986 in Portland, Oregon, and graduated with a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2010. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work explores the symbiotic relationship between humanity and technology using an arsenal of software-based tools traditionally used in the production of video games, special effects, and motion graphics. Recent exhibitions include Smart New World (curated by Elodie Evers and Magdalena Holzhey) at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany, 2014, and the 2013 La Biennale de Lyon (curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran) in Lyon, France.

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