Rob Duarte's practice is driven by a need to bring to the surface the politics embedded in all technology. Through sculptures and installations, Duarte draws attention to the ways in which technology often creates more problems than it solves, reinf
...MoreRob Duarte's practice is driven by a need to bring to the surface the politics embedded in all technology. Through sculptures and installations, Duarte draws attention to the ways in which technology often creates more problems than it solves, reinforces existing social hierarchies, and disguises its political ideology through slick "user friendly" interfaces. Over the past decade, Duarte's critical gaze into the social, political, and cultural aspects of technology has materialized in works whose subjects are as disparate as public payphones as vehicles and mediators for storytelling, the moral and ethical entanglements of turpentine production in the South, and the sandwich maker as the ultimate object of consumerist desire. Duarte earned an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego, a BFA in Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and a BS in Business Information Systems with a minor in Computer & Information Science from the University of Massachusetts.
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