The artbot runs through a database - covering about half of the SFMOMA’s collection - and matches your search query to the tags that SFMOMA’s staff has painstakingly attached to each piece of artwork. ![]() You can text the artbot a keyword, the name of a color, or an emoji. “It’s the exact premise, we’re just really excited that it actually worked.” “It’s an exciting place to be, where people want to have art in their pocket, on their phone, in a really personal way,” SFMOMA Head of Web and Digital Content Keir Winesmith tells Vox. SFMOMA was hoping to send out 100,000 texts from the artbot over the course of the summer on Monday, they sent out 385,000. It exploded onto the internet over the past few days, and hit Twitter in a big way on Monday. Constance Gradyįollowing a pilot program in May, the artbot in its current form launched on June 16. Text “send me diamonds,” and the bot might respond with Alfred Jensen’s “Expulsion from Eden.” Asked for a robot, the artbot sent me a 1982 Bryan Rodgers print. Text “send me a dog,” and you might get a Pirkle Jones photo of Larry Gardner on a bicycle with a dog. Text “send me dancers” to the artbot at 572-51, and you might receive a photo of an untitled Joel Shapiro sculpture from 1989 that depicts an abstracted body in motion. The artbot, officially titled Send Me SFMOMA, will text art directly to your phone, on demand, in service of your every whim. ![]() The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s new “artbot” is this month’s helpful reminder that the internet is not just a gaping hellpit of horror and despair, but can in fact be Good.
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