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aaajiao b. 1984
Water Measure - Petroleum, 2017
Antipodes glass bottles, BLK water, peristaltic pump structure, metal and acrylic accessories
50 x 20 x 12 cm
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“Water Measure-Petroleum” is a programmed hourglass filled with petroleum-like pitch-black water. Every drip of water reads the binary coded redundant data filtered from high-frequency trading—a futile gesture of reading useless...
“Water Measure-Petroleum” is a programmed hourglass filled with petroleum-like pitch-black water. Every drip of water reads the binary coded redundant data filtered from high-frequency trading—a futile gesture of reading useless or meaningless information created within the shortest possible amount time by the largest possible multitude of users and operations.
This piece was done in collaboration with Ma Juan and Shen Jiujiu.