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Born in Louisiana,
1963 Lives in New York
Every Icon,1997
www.numeral.com/everyicon.html
Internet project
Sandra Gering Gallery,
New York, and the artist John F. Simon, Jr.'s Every Icon is
a Java applet, a small program that automatically downloads
from the Internet and runs on a computer's hard drive. It
generates every possible combination of black-and-white squares
in a grid of 32 x 32, or a total of 1,024 squares, beginning
with all white squares and ending with all black. On an average
home computer, it would take several hundred trillion years
for the process to conclude, which is Simon's way of "making
you think about a very, very long time."
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