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What can painting become in an observer’s encounter with it

It examines the artistic process through which Wurm created many of his major works and series

Through extensive field investigations

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Do You Compute? Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug 1950-1999 mental health What can painting become inBefore Alexa and the iPhone, there was the large and unwieldy mainframe computer. In the postwar 1950s, computers were mostly used for aerospace and accounting purposes. moreTo the public at large, they were on a rung that existed somewhere between engineering and science fiction. Magazine ads and marketing brochures were designed to create a fantasy surrounding these machines for prospective clients: Higher profit margins! Creativity unleashed! Total