1000 Ways it Does Not Work

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.

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.
External Link: http://1000ways.org
Date Created: 2006-04-10
1000 Ways it Don't Work See it All The Legal Fiction of the Corporate Person Jack Welch GE CEO on GE Robot face. GE Robot TV HEAD Plug in fashion Remote Control? Shake Hands- GE Mirror Corporate Touching C'mon man I want to buy a share. NYSE said NO Gifts delivered and spurned by GE. The light bulb suit illuminates Fairfield, CT The Altered Remote Control.
In this performance I travelled to Fairfiled, CT, with gifts for the corporate person of General Electric. I was refused admittance to their headquarters, but took my show to the street!
This interactive program tried to visualize the vast interconnected network of economic, political, and industrial influence that is General Electric.
This robot embodied the corporate person of GE. I wore an incandescent bulb studded blazer, and had a GE televsion for a head. Shaking hands alered the video through a deconstructed remote control.
Jack Welch GE CEO on GE Robot face.
The GE Robot. Interactive video tv brain. Shake hands- make difference?
The GE TV with GE foam.
GE Lightbulb studded blazer illuminates. Plug in fashion.
The altered remote control tried to control the robot. Notice the GE plastic.
Shaking Hands with the robot. Interactive Video.
More corporate touching.
Still from New York Stock Exchange action. Police denied me entrance to the exchange floor.
NYSE denied the my advances. A la David Hammons.
Gifts delivered and spurned by GE.
The light bulb suit illuminates Fairfield, CT
The altered Remote Control. Hacked to control the robot when a participant shakes he robots hands.
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