Game Art: Alexander Hahn's "Simulating Device For Missile Defense" (1984)

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Alexander Hahn, Simulating Device For Missile Defense, installation, 1984 (installation view)
"... SIMULATING DEVICE FOR MISSILE DEFENCE incorporates two pulse functions in a steel blue styrofoam armature, one being random, referring to actual thought, and one standard five pulse rate sequence resembling routine task fulfillment. The routine pulse circuit is constant, dominating, interfering with, or halting the random game sequence..." (excerpt from RADIO TRANSCRIPT WBAI 99.5 FM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1984 by Steve Whitesell)

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