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"The American War" (2005) by Harrell Fletcher
apprpriated museum exhibit: photographs and wall texts

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"Following Piece" (1969) by Vito Acconci
Photography and text documents

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"Le reliquaire"(1988) by Christian Boltanski
gelatin silver prints, steel frames, steel boxes, steel mesh, fabric, elecrtic lamps and cables
94.7 x 105.1 x 28 in. / 240.5 x 267 x 71 cm.

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"Portrait: Self #1 as Control + 11 Alternations by Retouching and Airbrushing" (1974) John Baldessari
Twelve colour photographs with airbrushing on museum board; 356 x 273 mm

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"ice4milk" (2004-2006) by Francis Alÿs

160 color slides on 2 slide projectors
Image Size: variable

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"The Colour Spectrum Series" (2005), Olafur Eliasson

48 color photographic prints, each image 37.3 x 48.3cm, overall either 238.8 x 407.4cm or 34.5 x 24m

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"Primary Time" (1974), Bas Jan Ader
Umatic tape transferred onto DVD, silent
25 min, 47 sec

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Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance III (1951), Ellsworth Kelly
cut and pasted color coated paper and pencil on four sheets of paper, 38 1/4 x 38 1/4

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"Inopportune: Stage 1" (2004) by Cai Guo-Qiang
Cars, sequenced multi-channel light tubes

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"Head On" by Cai Guo-Qiang (from his 'I Want to Believe' show at Guggenheim)

99 life-sized replicas of wolves and glass

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"Emergencia" (1998) by Alfredo Jaar
Metal pool, fiberglass maquette, hydraulic system. Pool: 195 1/4 x 275 1/2 x 35 3/8 inches. Maquette: 275 1/2 x 236 1/4 x 12 inches.

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"Iran Contra Scandal Chart" by Mark Lombardi

Lombardi himself called his diagrams Narrative Structures and they are structurally similar to sociograms – a diagram drawn from the field of social network analysis. Working within these concepts, each node or connection was drawn from news stories from reputable media organizations, in order to form a diagram, or revelation depicting networks of criminal conspiracies. Not only are these charts packed with information, they create beautiful images of lines and texts which form a much larger image of aesthetics.

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"Google Maps Envelopes" by designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik

Beginning as only a conceptual design, desiring for Google Maps to pick up the idea, users could map the course of snail mail on the envelop itself. The project further proposes people would be able to send these envelopes through the GMail interface itself.

Since then, many designers and web savvy artists have realized similar projects and one can print an approximate route from starting point to reciever right onto their envelope.

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"Landfill" (2000) by Mark Dion
Wood, Celluclay, painted backdrop (by Sean Foley), taxidermied animals, garbage, paint.
71.5 x 147.5 x 64 inches

Based on the systems of landfills set-up across the globe. "Landfill" is a life-size habitat display of a landfill. In this work, packaged in a shipping crate (commenting on the ability for this problem to be anywhere around the globe, making it a universal problem and commentary), a dog, a cat, rodents and birds scavenge a dump filled with trash relating to the animal kingdom - old bird feeders, leather shoes, and containers for products containing animals or using them as logos. Dion asks the viewers of his artwork to think about the relationship between humans and animals. He points out how humans can have a negative effect on the environment animals live in when they do not care for it properly.

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"Pamphleteer" or "Little Brother" by IAA (Institute for Applied Autonomy)

Pamphleteer, aka "Little Brother," is a propaganda robot which distributes subversive literature. Pamphleteer is designed to bypass the social conditioning that inhibits activists' ability to distribute propaganda by capitalizing on the aesthetics of cuteness.
By modeling the robot as a cute, wide-eyed robot, reminiscent of those from sci-fi cartoons, the IAA is able to draw unsuspecting people in to taking their material, usually about political issues and local activism. Everyone is more likely to take pamphlets from a cute little robot that talks then some punk with a mohawk, right?

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"capacity for (urban eden, human error)" by Allison Kudla
gel growth medium, plant cells, mechanical plotter, computer programming


This system uses a computer controlled four-axis positioning table to “print” intricate bio-architectural constructions out of live plant cells, through mathematically processed algorithms. The algorithmically-generated patterns drawn by the system are based on the Eden growth model and leverage mathematical representations of both urban growth and cellular growth, thereby connecting the concept of city with the concept of the organism. Creates living and growing biological material via a mechanical construction. The final plotted design appears as a mapped out city, or an image of urban growth.

From the lines grow plants, creating a methodically planted garden.

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"Ambient Orb" by Ambient Information Everywhere

An orb that provides information from ambiance within a room. It can track weather patterns, stock markets, horoscopes and news. It gives information by changing color. In the case of the stock market it might turn red when down, green when up, and yellow when steady.

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"Drawing Restraint 9" (2006) by Matthew Barney

Cast polycarprolactone thermoplastic, aquaplast and self-lubricating plastic; 36.5 x 114 x 80"

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"Feral Robotic Dogs" by Natalie Jeremijenko

Hacked and circuit-bent toy robotic dogs. Made to perform new tasks.

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"Victimless Leather" by SymbioticA (an Australian artistic laboratory enabling artists to engage in wet biology practices and collaborate with scientists in a biological science department)