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[00:00.41] So for many years I've been doing computer art, geometric art with pen and paper on plotters.

[00:07.31] I write the code and sometimes I build the machines.

[00:11.83] I would upload the stuff to social media, figuring maybe people like the soft noises and the clicks and pops and so on.

[00:19.27] No one really paid any attention to it.

[00:21.92] At some point, someone gave me a chocolate 3D printer extruder, and I filled it with acrylic paint, and set it up and made a terrible mess.

[00:32.02] I wanted to try out making some dots, and I wrote a little program, and the dots weren't in order.

[00:38.66] These were reactions it got. Some people got angry.

[00:41.85] Some people sympathized with the robot.

[00:45.03] Some people danced to it.

[00:46.89] Mostly angry.

[00:50.08] If you go in a line, it’ll be faster.

[00:53.00] If you go in a line, it'll be -- it'll be quicker if you go in a line.

[00:55.93] I think -- you're going side to side.

[00:58.85] You should go in a line and you'll go faster.

[01:00.18] Just go -- go in a line!This one is “Bad day at the circle factory.”

[01:04.69] I realized you could manufacture emotions of various kinds with just a robot and pen and paper.

[01:11.33] So I leaned into it.