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Blue

A blue screen is exhibited.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they found it like that.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they crashed an NT box deliberately.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The artist, when interviewed, claim they wrote a program that colours the screen blue.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it randomly shows an RGB colour on start-up.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it studied several thousand religious images and decided on blue using a neural net.

A blue screen is exhibited at an art show. The computer is stolen and the thieves decompile the program. They find it was meant to show an animation.

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Breakthrough Fetishism

Why is conceptual art criticism so hung up on breakthrough works?
This can be parodied by making a SETI-style distributed aesthetic search system, looking for new paradigms during coffee breaks.

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Finding The Aura

Get a tri-field EM meter and search Tate Modern for the aura of the artwork. Dowsing should work well, too.

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More Picassos

Hypnostise people, tell them they’re Picasso and get them to make paintings.

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Parodies

“Imagine you are in England.”
“Anthony, sculptor.”
“Placebo”