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Copy/Paste infers a lack of consequences; When you copy something from one environment and paste it into another, the assumption is that it has gone unchanged. But in David B. Smith’s practice he repeatedly plays with and challenges this assumption, emphasizing and aggressively pushing the transformations that, in reality, are inevitable. By playfully amplifying noise, improvisation, and misunderstanding, he explores the way copying and pasting can entropically generate something “new.”

David B. Smith uses digitally found or photographed images, copies and processes their …