Off my rocker at the art school bop

[venta]

Last year, I suddenly discovered that my offices (on a university campus) were near the art department.

This year we have seen no such high-jinks, but there has been a stripy sign up proclaiming that we could visit this year's degree show if we wanted. Last Thursday, hjalfi herded some of us across the grass to go and look at art.

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[undyingking]

Sisyphus Unchained

?? Sisyphus never did get chained, that was the whole point of him. He tricked Hades into chaining himself instead. Maybe they were thinking of Tantalus.

(I'm now wondering if CRASH-MESSAGE.txt is actually the artwork itself, in an ironic comment on the nature of video art. If not, it should be.)

[venta]

I didn't even wonder about the chains - I just wasn't clear why Sisyphus would be linked with a horse! (Ditto Tantalus, actually....)

I also wondered that about CRASH_MESSAGE.txt! One of my colleagues had seen it earlier in the week, though, and said it had been a rather nice animation - a model of the room it was in, projected onto one wall, with various items bouncing improbably around. There were also screens displaying details of the wireframe model, the source code and - as it turned out - the core dump :)

[undyingking]

I was thinking Tantalus because of the saddle being suspended above it. But as you say, no obvious equine connection. I expect it's a metaphor. Who knows the mind of an art student?