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Artforum International, February, 2002 by Strauss, D.
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> A pet only Steven Spielberg could love? Sony commissioned Japanese animator Katsura Moshino to develop a mass market version of the electronics giant's $1,500-a-tail-artificially intelligent robot dog AIBO, a companion only somewhat more lifelike than Haley Joel Osment. Going by the name Latte or Macaron (the two models in the LM Series), this affordable ($850) dog's yapping is literally pure music: Visionary glitch-kitsch composer Nobukazu Takemura was hired to create the digitally equipped watchdog's electronic vocabulary Takemura--whose recently released CD Sign (Thrill Jockey) ...
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