Lipstick Enigma
Lipstick Enigma, a sculpture by Janet Zweig made using 1200 resin lipsticks, powered by 1200 stepper motors and controlled by 60 circuit boards.
This computer-driven sentence-generator, using rules and lexicon written by the artist, invents and writes a new line of text, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector. The sentences mix the language of engineering with the language of beauty advertising.
[via who killed bambi?]
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