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ART AND INNOVATION: THE XEROX PARC ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Edited by Craig Harris, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999, $35.00
Hoping to read minds via television, eight-year-old Paul De Marinis placed homemade electrodes on his friend's forehead, ran a wire through a 10,000-volt spark coil to the family TV and threw the switch. The resultant explosion-destroying the tube and nearly electrocuting his pal-gave De Marinis an introduction to media research he wouldn't soon forget.
De Marinis is now one of a dozen or so artists who have collaborated with scientists in Xerox PARC'S Artist-inResidence (PAIR) program. Directed since its 1993 inception by Rich Gold (who also spearheads Xerox's research in experimental documents), PAIR'S goal is to...