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Michael Bell-Smith

Michael Bell-Smith is a New York-based artist whose work focuses on popular culture and how it is mediated through popular technology. He has exhibited his work on the Internet as well as in traditional venues, including Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Foxy Production, New York; [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland; Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK; and PROJECKT 0047, Berlin, Germany. He has spoken on copyright and appropriation at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired (online), and Entertainment Weekly (online).
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Michael Bell-Smith is a New York-based artist whose work focuses on popular culture mediated through popular technology. He has exhibited on the Internet and at traditional venues including Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK); Foxy Production (New York); [plug.in] (Basel, Switzerland); Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool, UK); and PROJECKT 0047 (Berlin, Germany). He has lectured on copyright and appropriation at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School and appeared on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC; his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wired (online), and Entertainment Weekly (online).

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