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Q: But what about your use of images of the President, from the Department of Defense, or military websites? You even juxtapose some of these images with ones taken from Internet porn sites. Do you have some message you are trying to communicate with these images?

SPAHR: No. These images are familiar. We see them all the time in the media, and all over the Internet. The images of the Bush administration is just a reflection of what’s in the news. President Bush is mentioned so often these days. His entire administration is being talked about. Besides everyone I know wants publicity. It must be fun to be the “Decider.”

Q: Do you plan to start making real art again? You know, the traditional art you used to make, sculpture and drawings?

SPAHR: I stopped making sculpture a long time ago. I don’t believe in it anymore. I was doing commercial work, as a web producer during the Dot Com bubble, thats when I learned the technical skills I needed to write the Cruft algorithms and scripts. Shortly after 9/11, I began to experiment with automated scripts that produce Cruft images. The Dot Com bubble burst and 9/11 happened, all within about a year of one another. Out of those events I began making Cruft.

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