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Jens Haaning
Jens Haaning, ‘Turkish Mercedes’ (1996)
A Mercedes Benz with Turkish license plates and loudspeakers on the roof, broadcasting jokes in Turkish in Kreutzberg, Berlin, an area dominated by Turkish immigrants.
Leon Gaumont
This was the first ever mixer with crossfader. The Gaumont Chronophone.
In 1910, the French engineer Leon Gaumont demonstrated his sound-and-film synchronizing Chronophone system at the Gaumant Palace in Paris, France. Gaument’s Chronophone had two gramophone platters, between which a deft operator could switch back and forth.
Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt, ‘Present Perfect’ (2008)
The text PRESENT PERFECT is engraved at the scale of a nanometer (1/1000000 of a meter) on the surface of a nail.
David Robbins
Art Dealers’ Optical Test #1: When Peter Nagy of Nature Morte looks at the square, the near circle appears double. The reverse is true when the circle is fixated.
Art Dealers’ Optical Test #2: To Colin de Land of American Fine Arts, the string appears single wherever it is fixated, double elsewhere.
Art Dealers’ Optical Test #4: Helene Winer of Metro Pictures points to rectangle that appears to match one held up by gallery partner Janelle Reiring at each testing distance.
Art Dealers’ Optical Test #6: Light Directed from the side through the closed lid of Oliver Wasow of Cash/Newhouse Gallery will cast a shadow of the retinal blood vessels that can be seen with careful observation.
From ‘The art dealers’ optical tests’ (1987) by David Robbins
Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger, ‘Metro-Net’
Kippenberger imagined a global underground metro system and started to construct entrances to it in different cities around the world.
