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My girlfriend has been working on the promotion of this, I thought this was pretty tepidly curated exhibition. It seems they went in with the purpose of making interactive/generative art seem like a really stern, stuffy practice when in fact some of the best examples are those that have a playful angle. Don't get me wrong, I love the academic side of work from guys like Ryoji Ikeda, I just think it was a bit over-dry given that its supposed to appeal to new groups of people. Also it has quite a few pieces presented so small it looked like a parade of screensavers in dixons. Computer art needs scale to make it feel like youve done something other than spent a lunchbreak on youtube or looking at the train timetable. Drew Hemment put together a much better survey of this kind of work at sonar 3 years ago