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1000 Ways It Doesn't Work

1000 Ways It Doesn't Work

Making Love to the Corporate Body

1000 Ways It Dont Work

is a multimedia art project which attempts to come to terms with the General Electric Corporation. Through installations, performances, videos, programs, correspondence, and web pages the project seeks the human dimensions and implications of the multi-national behemoth that is GE. This site hopes to facillitate a deepening connection to the corporation. Please explore the projects, read correspondences, and use the email utility to engage with GE stakeholders.

The projects takes its name from GE's founder, Thomas Alva Edison, who relentlessly searched for a working filament for the electric light. After years of failure he met with his creditors including J.P. Morgan, who were demanding results. "Results?" Edison replied, "Results, I've got results, I've learnt 1,000 ways it don't work!" Sources say he said it with pride.

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GE Headquarters Intervention
GE Headquarters Intervention Attempts to share gifts with the corporation. Offers of compassion greeted with cold. Copper thought out of there. Singing people. Talking, lighting up. Explosions. Not enough.
NYSE intervention
NYSE intervention Action at stock exchange. Attempts to buy a share of General Electric. To become a part of corporation that has given us so much. Was sold a fake share in lost tape. First video.
Legal Person
Legal Person The Legal Person installation consists of a GE TV, a mannequin, broken mirrors, decapitated remote control, radiation suit, light-bulb studded blazer, foam, wood, wires, switches, and ribbon. Viewers can approach the mannequin and shake its hands. When they shake the hands either the audio or the video playing on the TV changes. The change is towards silence or towards the awareness that GE is an open system. Check out the digital version.
See It All
See It All An Interactive map of the corporation in time space and relationships
RSS Intervention
RSS Intervention Too much information but I still cant touch the corporation
RSS Motion Intercenvtion
RSS Motion Intercenvtion Jumping Feeds. These energetic hyperlinks hop all over your screen. Why are they doing this? Does the information they contain make them unstable. Are they discordant notes of corporate delusions of grandeur. Can they their own rotting flesh exposed as silicon memory leak that they cant come round with vision. Help the feeds with for, Help we need.
RSS Not Fade Away
RSS Not Fade Away I just cant see how electric touching can help me get round to the other side of the apocalypse.
Installation Compilation
Installation Compilation Click to change images. Press space bar to change installations. press any key to change the modulate mode. Two installations are digitally represented in this mushyware. One Installation was Lights bulbs in GE sequence with triacs. The other was the interactive legal person.