Fusion’s Kashmir Hill reports on a recent collaboration between filmmaker Laura Poitras, artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei and technologist Jacob Appelbaum. Poitras, who recently won an Oscar for Citizenfour, a documentary on Edward Snowden, just finished filming Ai and Appelbaum “meeting and making art together,” Hill writes. The collaboration was requested by Rhizome. Over the course of the last six years, Rhizome, which is affiliated with the New Museum in New York, has paired seven technologists with seven artists and has given them 24 hours to create a joint art project. Poitras was invited along to film the historic meeting. In her post, Hill also describes the steps she took to protect her own privacy when journeying to China to cover the meeting.
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