The gift and trauma of tech

“Collaboration” (mixed media on paper), by Joe Taveras (Robojoebot), roboticist and artist, in his show “American Futurism,’’ at his Robojoebot Studio, in Boston’s SOWA arts district.

Artscope quotes him as saying that "I am inspired by everything I come into contact with as well as the predictions of future technologies that arise within my mind." The magazine continues: “Much of his artwork in American Futurism consists of fragmented figures made with dark lines, representing the global atmosphere of uncertainty and the detrimental effects of innovation without ethics. However, the brightness and colors present speak to positivity and the idea that the future can be better than the present.’’