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So, he disassembled the screen and made it 50% useful?

1.) The artist is a she [0]

2.) Almost every new technological idea starts with a worse product than the older technology. It's clearly not meant to be a product, but a conversation starter on how we interact with screens in and outside of daylight. I consider this problem not to be solved and would love to see more art projects (and ultimately, products)

[0] https://basaktuna.com/Contact-and-Bio

On today's episode of "Hacker News critiques art"...

I mean, who needs art when we use 80x24 terminals all day. /s

Now, if you pardon, I need to fine-tune my color scheme and touch up my welcome banner ASCII art.

I'd say 30% or less. Works not at light, works bad at non-homogenous daylight. And you need to look against a window to look into the screen.

Also, Picasso wasted a lot of paint which could have been put to good use painting fences.

And canvas! Just imagine how many trousers could have been made out of the canvas needed for Guernica!

Army trousers, of course.

Just googled the painting. I do agree with the "painting fences" argument.

Somebody should tell Citroen about this.

They have won a couple of awards with their translucent C4 dashboard LCD which uses daylight when it's available.

She: "Başak Tuna develops, rethinks and reproduces a project she called DayLight Computer".

But 10 times more valuable since now it's art.

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