 Good piece by Joe McKay:Press Enter to Exit
There are two mesh screens inside the box, one that's shaking and one that's not. This shaking makes the letters shimmer with a moire brilliance that mimics a computer screen.
The text comes from my local deli's ATM machine. I love how messed up life is that pressing "enter" to exit makes perfect sense.
Click here for a link to a small video clip of the sculpture in action.
McKay's work often features klutzy robotic simulations of the sleek cool computer trappings that enhance our lives, for example, his mechanical progress bar, or a recording light that "blinks" by slowly spinning on a wall-mounted rotor. Maybe in the future he can tackle the "Start" button the majority of the world's computer-users still have to press to shut down their machines. On second thought, Windows is beyond satire at this point.
UPDATE: For those in the greater New York area, Progress Bar will be on display through Sunday, July 3 at vertexList, in Williamsburg. Hours are 2-6 pm today, tomorrow and Sunday. By the way, I disagree with the statement in Marcin Ramocki's exhibition thesis that "Content itself has faded to the background [in the present era] the way an adjective still describes a noun without holding much importance." It's possible to like Joe McKay's work and still enjoy something like George Romero's Land of the Dead on the level of pure story. Content is even triumphing over empty signifiers in the political realm, if Bush's poll numbers on Iraq are any indication. Go see LotD, by the way, it's a hoot. Visualize the destruction of resource-hogging yuppies by the underclass, achieve the destruction of resource-hogging yuppies by the underclass.
hey - progress bar is on display at vertexList for another 3 days:)
best
Post updated, thanks.
'windows is shutting down' always raises a smile with me.
www.neural.it/nnews/pressentertoexitprogressbar.htm
Check it out Tom, you've given me an international career!
I wish I could take credit for that. Actually the Italian post prompted mine, indirectly. It's dated June 28, it was then picked up by We Make Money Not Art, then Engadget (slow loader). All the traffic from Engadget showed up in my logs because you had a link to my infinite fill reviews. I didn't know why I was getting the sudden uptick in traffic--I knew it wasn't just my fine writing--so I visited your page to see what was going on. I hadn't read the Engadget piece or any of those that inspired it at the time I visited on June 30. At that time I noticed your "press enter to exit" update and had what I thought was an original, spontaneous idea to write about these 3 pieces. So the Italian site started the whole internet ball rolling.
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UPDATE: For those in the greater New York area, Progress Bar will be on display through Sunday, July 3 at vertexList, in Williamsburg. Hours are 2-6 pm today, tomorrow and Sunday. By the way, I disagree with the statement in Marcin Ramocki's exhibition thesis that "Content itself has faded to the background [in the present era] the way an adjective still describes a noun without holding much importance." It's possible to like Joe McKay's work and still enjoy something like George Romero's Land of the Dead on the level of pure story. Content is even triumphing over empty signifiers in the political realm, if Bush's poll numbers on Iraq are any indication. Go see LotD, by the way, it's a hoot. Visualize the destruction of resource-hogging yuppies by the underclass, achieve the destruction of resource-hogging yuppies by the underclass.
- tom moody 7-01-2005 6:35 am
hey - progress bar is on display at vertexList for another 3 days:)
best
- marcin (guest) 7-01-2005 8:51 pm
Post updated, thanks.
- tom moody 7-01-2005 9:45 pm
'windows is shutting down' always raises a smile with me.
- rich (guest) 7-01-2005 10:24 pm
www.neural.it/nnews/pressentertoexitprogressbar.htm
Check it out Tom, you've given me an international career!
- joester 7-03-2005 9:45 pm
I wish I could take credit for that. Actually the Italian post prompted mine, indirectly. It's dated June 28, it was then picked up by We Make Money Not Art, then Engadget (slow loader). All the traffic from Engadget showed up in my logs because you had a link to my infinite fill reviews. I didn't know why I was getting the sudden uptick in traffic--I knew it wasn't just my fine writing--so I visited your page to see what was going on. I hadn't read the Engadget piece or any of those that inspired it at the time I visited on June 30. At that time I noticed your "press enter to exit" update and had what I thought was an original, spontaneous idea to write about these 3 pieces. So the Italian site started the whole internet ball rolling.
- tom moody 7-03-2005 10:16 pm