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Wegman's blackout skits on video were followed in the '70s by cartoonish drawings and whimsies staged for the camera. Like the big, vaporous paintings he started showing in 1987, they have their moments of Thurberesque charm, but it's only the loopy dog pictures that click. Situated somewhere between Marcel Duchamp's cunning art pranks and David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks, they rib Conceptualism even as they lay out its possibilities. But in the end their effectiveness rests upon powers of portrait psychology that owe little to Conceptualist mind games...
...other photographs on the database--architectural sites and maps--are included to "Let people browse around and acquire a concrete and gut feeling of a living society." Thus, with a few simple clicks on the Macintosh, one can acquire a terrific sense of the a city like Delphi. After locating Delphi on a map of Greece, the viewer can click a few more times for the history of the region and for background on particular structures...
...viewer can also click to see the architectural plan of a particular Greek temple and its physical evolution through the years. Photos of the temple and its surrounding landscape complete the viewer's experience; it gives him or her a "better feeling than with conventional tools," the next best thing to a trip to Greece...
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...kind of question asked on soap operas and on Oprah and Geraldo and Donahue. When the program ends, the audience will mute a commercial and scratch itself, glance out the window and see that reality still looks lousy. It will turn back to the television and click through the channels to find another hour of pointless junk...