Several of the collegiate world’s most promising digital artists have converged this week on Silicon Valley to give engineers at Yahoo a taste of their recent work. Company officials hope the intersection of high technology and high art will encourage Yahoo’s programmers to take a multidisciplinary approach to their work, according to Agence France-Presse.
Many of the art projects on display are surprisingly utilitarian: A group of students from Rio de Janeiro, for example, developed a tool that uses global-positioning satellites to turn cellphones into interactive travel guides. But for frivolity’s sake, there’s "The Lick Races"—a piece that lets three users race robotic baby dolls, midway-style, by licking lollipops with embedded sensors. —Brock Read
