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»Fedex® Kraft Box ©2005 FEDEX 330504 REV 10/05 CC, Fedex International 2-Day, Los Angeles-Brussels«, 2008 (two-way mirror glass with safety glass laminated, silicon) by Walead Beshty.




»Western Negative«, 2007 (Still image burned into screen of monitor) by Tom Dale.




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»Thinking Machine 4«, 2004 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. It is an artificial intelligence program, ready to play chess with the viewer. If the viewer confronts the program, the computer’s thought process is sketched on screen as it plays. A map is created from the traces of literally thousands of possible futures as the program tries to decide its best move. Those traces become a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine. By Martin Wattenberg and Marek Walczak.




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»Screen Burn (please wait)«, 2005. Steven Read wrote a software program in Apple II Integer Basic that displays an image on the monitor’s screen. Then he ran the program continuously for about 6 months. The software image was eventually burned into the screen because the internal phosphor compounds which emit light lost their luminosity and left behind a ghostly trace. The ‘please wait’ text is actually an image which took over 1000 lines of software code to create. The old Apple II operating systems (DOS 3.x, ProDOS, etc.) did not come with any font facilities, if you wanted a font you had to code it from scratch.




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“Untitled 1″ (broom sweeps floor every second) and “Untitled 3″ (graphite disc is thrown every hour at 17 minutes past the hour) by Piero Golia.




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»Witness Panel (Without Traces of Failure)« shows a shotgun blast in drywall.

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»Just Do It« (appr. 15.7 acres of snow) by Luke Aleckson.




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“Bandaged” and

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“Snowshoes” by Stephen J. Shanabrook.