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Preface
Admission
Works




"The Invention of Morel"
"Neo Prajna-Paramita-Sura"
"Experience in Material No.39 Biblioteca"
"The Book from the Sky "
Participation Artist's
Related Events




Artists' Talk 9 / 18 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 9 / 25 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 10 / 2 (Fri.)
Artists' Talk 10 / 10 (Sat.)
Film Showing
Catalog

September 18 (Friday) - October 25 (Sunday), 1998 [Finished] Gallery A, D, Theater





Works


"Neo Prajna-Paramita-Sura"
1998
KOHMURA Masao







Masao KOHMURA's book is another example of wasted effort. It is an unbelievably time-consuming work of combining five each of JIS Level 1 and Level 2 Chinese characters, for example, randomly. Meaning may be created if the characters were combined two each, but is absolutely impossible when five characters from each level are combined. Such nonsense is a job best performed by a computer. This work is therefore an example of an advanced use of computer that is too correct that it is funny: to have the computer concentrate on a monotonous, mechanical task that it excels at, and have it endlessly discharge meaningless output.