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b'Our Guest Artist: Joanne Hastie\\xa0
\\nOur Host Artist: Carol McQuaid
\\nOur Bar: Milano on Fairview Slopes, Vancouver
\\nOur guest artist today is Joanne Hastie. You\\u2019ve probably seen her lively cityscapes with their bright red signature.\\xa0 They are held in collections all over the world. \\xa0She\\u2019s part artist, part engineer, and is having lots of fun programming a mechanical arm to paint like a human. She\\u2019s also the instigator of the Internationally traveling Canadian Art Collective 13 Feet Off the Ground, of which I\\u2019m a happy member.
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\\nNow let\\u2019s head to Milano and listen in as Joanne and I talk hacks for dealing with a tight painting space, whether a robotic painting arm is a tool or a creator, and what it feels like to paint on a scaffold 40\\u2019 in the air.
\\nWe’ll cover:
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\\n* wanting to incorporate her engineering background into her work
\\n* her robotic arm project “I got a robotic arm in my studio and I’ve been getting it to paint for me.\\xa0 I call the project Painting Variables because when you’re programming a variable is like a noun… It’s breaking down the process of painting”
\\n* the debate about what art is, and whether a robot is the artist or the tool when it paints
\\n* the forming of the collection 13 Feet Off the Ground, and how she organized a mural painting adventure for a group of Canadian artists in Sicily
\\n* what it’s like to paint a mural 40′ off the ground (hint: it gets easier as you go)
\\n* finding residencies through sites like Resartis
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\\nLinks (through the episode webpage)
\\nVote for Joanne at the Robotart: www.robotart.org/team/profile/joanne-hastie
\\nJoanne’s instagram account www.instagram.com/joannehastie
\\nPainting Variables – the instagram account for Joanne’s robotic arm www.instagram.com/paintingvariables
\\n13′ Off the Ground www.13feetofftheground.com
\\nGraniti Murales Art Residency www.granitimurales.org
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