DuBois is an artist, and therefore his work is aesthetically motivated; however, his work also has an intended audience, such as the installation of word clouds composed from presidential State of the Union addresses created for the 2012 Democratic National Convention. He uses computer algorithms to make his art statistically significant and precise, and uses conventional artistic media to make his computer algorithms aesthetically significant. For example, his Self Portrait is a force directed graph of every email he has ever received, labeled in DuBois’ own handwriting. The computer-generated graph, created from DuBois’ “digital biography,” is infused with part of his humanistic identity.
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