a little background on this, doesn't make sense I just realized if you don't know the original piece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbed_(performance_piece) *Seedbed* is a performance piece<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_art>first performed by Vito Acconci <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Acconci> on 15–29 January 1971 at Sonnabend Gallery <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnabend_Gallery> in New York <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York>. A low wooden ramp merging with the floor - it extends across the width of the room, beginning two feet up the side of one wall and slanting down to the middle of the floor. Acconci lay hidden underneath the ramp installed at the Sonnabend Gallery, masturbating. The artist's spoken fantasies about the visitors walking above him were heard through loudspeakers in the gallery.[1 ]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seedbed_%28performance_piece%29#cite_note-description-0> Marina Abramovic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovic> performed * Seedbed* as part of her *Seven Easy Pieces<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Easy_Pieces> * in 2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005>. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Joseph Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > another clever "code poem" from Pall Thayer, this one portrays seminal > performance artist Vito Acconci's "Seedbed" in script: > > *Seedbed* > Inspired in part by James Morris' ( http://www.jwm-art.net ) > microcrudities. > 01. July 2009 > > #!/usr/bin/perl > use Cwd qw(realpath); > $myself = realpath($0); > while(1){ > `touch $myself`; > print `ls -l $myself`; > } > > > > damn that's good > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Pall Thayer <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM > Subject: RHIZOME DISCUSS: Vito Acconci's 'Seedbed' > To: Rhizome Discuss <[email protected]> > > > ...revisited in digital format. > > http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/index.php?code_id=29 > > Reply via: > http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/43092#57739 > > Click here to unsubscribe from this list<http://rhizome.org/unsubscribe.php> > >
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