#!/bin/sh
# historic_loop
# a BASH microcode to print your .bash_history
# file line by line in an infinite loop.
a_previous_login_history=`cat .bash_history`
while true
do
for cmd in $a_previous_login_history
do
echo -n "${cmd} "
done
done
# note: perhaps if you want to literally repeat history
# ie re-issue all commands in your .bash_history file,
# replace echo -n "${cmd} " with `${cmd}`
# but beware to do so is probably not such a good idea.


On 25/5/2009, "Pall Thayer" <[email protected]> wrote:

>And for those who don't know what an infinite loop is in programming,
>it is explained along with an example in the Microcodes primer at
>http://pallit.lhi.is/microcodes/MCprimer.pdf
>
>
>Pall
>
>On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:50 AM, info <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture)
>>
>> The infinite loop is the perfect form for expressing the reality of
>> contemporary existence. From the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism
>> to the repeating right/left swings of American politics to the
>> misbehaving computer code frustrating our days, we are the society of
>> the loop. We're doomed to repeat history ad infinitum (not to mention ad
>> nauseum) with no progress nor resolve needed. These observations are
>> nothing new; how could they be? We've always been Sisyphus.
>>
>>    while (history) {
>>        history = true;
>>    }
>>
>>
>> Come celebrate the horrific beauty of the infinite loop at "The Wheel of
>> The Devil," a one-night-only screening of historic and contemporary
>> loops at Over The Opening. Each loop screened until the audience votes
>> to move to the next.
>>
>> Artists (in no particular order):
>> JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre
>> LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris
>> Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk -  and more... JODI - Rick Silva -
>> Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael
>> Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael
>> Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more... JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon -
>> Jon Rafman - Oliver Laric - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA -
>> Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith –
>> jimpunk - and more...
>>
>> curated by MTAA with Ed Halter
>> presented by T.Whid of MTAA
>>
>> where:
>> Over The Opening (OTO)
>> 60 N. 6th St. 2nd Flr (btw Wythe & Kent)
>> Brooklyn, NY, 11211 (map)
>>
>> when:
>> Friday May 29th, 2009 7-10PM (one night only)
>> Doors open at 7PM, the lecture starts looping at 8PM sharp!
>> free and open to the public
>>
>> Michael Sarff (M.River) and Tim Whidden (T.Whid) formed the
>> Brooklyn-based artist collaboration MTAA in 1996. MTAA has presented
>> artworks and performances at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, P.S.1
>> Contemporary Art Center, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters
>> Gallery, Artists Space, and Light Industry all in New York City; The
>> Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Beall Center for Art and
>> Technology in Irvine, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
>> Francisco, CA and at The Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. International
>> exhibitions include the Seoul Net & Film Festival in Korea and
>> Videozone2 - The 2nd International Video Art Biennial in Israel. The
>> collaboration has earned grants and awards from the Creative Capital
>> Foundation, Rhizome.org, Eyebeam and New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
>>
>> Ed Halter is a critic and curator living in New York City. His writing
>> has appeared in Artforum, Arthur, The Believer, Cinema Scope,
>> Kunstforum, Millennium Film Journal, Moving Image Source, Rhizome, the
>> Village Voice and elsewhere. From 1995 to 2005, he programmed and
>> oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and has organized
>> screenings and exhibitions for the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
>> Cinematexas, Eyebeam, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the Museum of Modern
>> Art, and San Francisco Cinematheque. He currently teaches in the Film
>> and Electronic Arts department at Bard College, and has lectured at
>> Harvard, NYU, Yale, and other schools as well as at Art in General,
>> Aurora Picture Show, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, the
>> Images Festival, the Impakt Festival, and Pacific Film Archive. His book
>> From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published by Thunder's
>> Mouth Press in 2006. With Andrea Grover, he is currently editing the
>> collection A Microcinema Primer: A Brief History of Small Cinemas. He is
>> a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and
>> electronic art in Brooklyn, New York.
>>
>> Over The Opening (OTO) - Once a month, the artist duo MTAA convert their
>> Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art. The
>> ongoing project, begun in October 2007, has presented work ranging from
>> group tamale production to a LAN party involving a computerized version
>> of Guy Debord’s 1978 "Game of War."
>>
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