So I didn’t blog last night. Why you ask? Well I was at the Leadway bar
and grill (Amazingly one of the few remaining businesses without a web
page).

I was hanging out with my friend Matt (it was him!). We struck up a conversation with a very interesting guy. He’s part of the Chicago School of Contraptionism and member of The Rubber Monkey Puppet Company.
His latest project involves machines that create paintings- they call it
Deus Ex Machina
(check out the pictures, some very interesting stuff there).
It begs the question: is it art? Or more specifically what is the art,
the machines or the paintings created by them? For that matter who is
the artist? Do you buy a painting by Joe Smith or is the real artistic
talent found in JoeBot v.2.3? What do you think?