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 ZZ: You started as a physicist?
ED: Yes. After about 12 years of doing physics I stopped and went to what I felt I really should be doing, which was art.
ZZ: Was there something [in particular] that made you make that move? Or was it a gradual realization?
ED: It was gradual, and it was the fact that I couldn't start as an artist because with my background that was not even possible. And physics was a very nice way to look at the world and travel, so I just did that. At some point it converged and I took the leap.
ZZ: And now you combine your art with some of your physics knowledge?
ED: That's what happened, yeah. Technology boomed and started to play an enormous role everywhere. And studying physics gave me the background to learn these things. So it was a natural thing for me to try to put them together.
ZZ: What do you do now?
ED: What I do now is try to use all these discarded machines in an expressive way; try to use all these computers as a raw medium.
ZZ: So you take computers as the raw materials; you're using them as tools for your art?
ED: Yeah, and then I also had to do a lot of programming, and that was a long, long journey. Learning all these languages and learning how to make them say visible things. That's what you're seeing now.
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In this video clip, Etienne talks about taking the leap from physics to art.
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Etienne Delacroix
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