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Luc Sonnet on digital art

More than a decade ago, Richard Carl Grossman pulled off one of the bigger scams in recent local history. Posing as a psychologist, he defrauded a dozen financial institutions that had loaned him nearly $18 million for a chain of dial-in, all-hours, $1-per-minute counseling clinics that never opened. He spent 32 months in prison. Once out, and calling himself Luc Sonnet, he hired a group of graduate film students to create a video in which he falsely depicts himself as an “international fine artist” whose works are in some of the world’s most prestigious private collections. In this video, he discusses the process of making “digital fine art” on a computer and how it is just as real as art with a brush and paint. He told people that he hoped to use the video to persuade PBS to do a documentary about him.

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