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Mozart's "The Magic Flute" at La Scala theater in Milan on March 20, 2011, directed by visual artist William Kentridge.

Non-weddings was inspired by a drawing by Jacques Lacan in “L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient”, as I realized that the Internet search engines had some similarities with this presentation (cf Google Image). The drawing by Lacan was

... or not. This “sentiment of an invisible omniscience” is to be compared with the trends that are unveiled by the global symbolic...

... In 2001, Google wasn’t yet the Internet icon it has become and I was sure that my piece would disappear very soon since it lives...

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... the sounds of other audio devices. Along these lines, DeMarinis combines in «March» the vinyl disc recording of a military march by...

... Inside, a primate-lab cage and a mechanism. That moves a computer controlled monkey's paw and a light source that slowly draw...

Flames, suitably modulated by electric fields, can be made to act as omnidirectional loudspeakers of surprising loudness and clarity. Each flame, captive within its cage, recites the words of a famous orator 1935-1936.

A memorial - and a warning - for the Jasmine Revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring. A soft rain of jasmine flowers promises freedom - but the viewer is trapped in a golden cage.