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MULTI-MEDIA INSTALLATION
THE
GOLDEN NUMBER AND A 14,000-HERTZ ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD
DOCUMENTA
8, KASSEL, GERMANY
AUGUST 1987
The
artist explores the esthetics of “invisible system artworks,”
virtual space, and the relationship between art and information
in a “latent” installation that only begins to
take on meaning elsewhere and after the fact, when its existence
is revealed in an article appearing in a major national newspaper
published in Cologne. The work in question is a 14,000 Hz
electromagnetic field produced by a series of tiny ultrasound
transmitters secretly placed along the perimeter of a rectangle
based on the golden number plotted on the floor of the building
where the Documenta exhibition is being held. The article
announcing the work—written by an art critic by prearrangement
with the artist—is preceded by a small classified ad
appearing in the lost-and-found section of the local newspaper
the day before stating that a number of small transmitters
had likely been lost on the grounds of the Documenta (8 of
which were later returned to the artist by mail).
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