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Slideshow: Ancient Macs Make Modern Art

British artist Richard Bolam is part of Europe's techno-art avant-garde, but he uses some pretty old technology: classic Macs and HyperCard. By Jason Walsh.
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's end result is abstract, random and dynamic -- an ever-changing montage of broken and distorted shapes spread across the installation's eight screens.

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, a HyperCard program running on one Mac determines the screen output of the other seven machines. The screens start out black and steadily fill with semi-random shapes and images.

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installation is set up in the Workstation Gallery in Sheffield, England.

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uses eight old, networked Macs and Apple's ancient HyperCard software to make a statement about how humans process information.

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