SIGGRAPH 1994: Art and Design Show
Art Show Administrator(s):
Location:
Orlando, Florida, United States of America
Dates:
July 24-29, 1994
Art Show Overview:
Welcome to the SIGGRAPH 94
Art and Design Show. The SIGGRAPH 94 Art and Design Show continues the tradition of showcasing a survey of the best recent works in art, design, and animation. The show is broad-based and media-inclusive. We considered entries in fine arts, design, interactive installations, art-based or multimedia essays, and animation. The 94 show includes site-specific works, shown outside of a gallery setting. We also produced an Art and Design Show video, “Persistence of Vision” with jurors’ comments to place the work in a context.We see some themes in the works this year. Several of the pieces represent a search for cultural roots. Some reflect the experience of being a tourist. Several look at family and memories. There were works that interspersed reality and fantasy elements. Some are obviously playful. There were a few with overt political statements. Many of the pieces considered the human form, and several were self-portraits. The animations included a number of collage pieces, and stories or story fragments.
As with all art, this show challenges our perspectives, stretches the limits of the expected, embraces change, and considers the meaning of visual language, codes, and symbols. Unlike many art shows, this one comments on the present because all of these artists are working with “tools” that were invented during their lifetimes.
As specified in our call for participation, the primary criterion for acceptance was aesthetic. Each work was evaluated with “traditional fine arts” considerations: use of compositional elements, color, line, form and tone. In addition, the jurors considered the aesthetic intention of each, judging the artworks on what we felt the artist was trying to achieve. We selected works that approached artistic design and creation in original ways. We looked for work that would challenge our perspectives. We included art that was visually exciting or had a strong emotional content.
We asked for works that could not have been created without the wide variety of computer tools that artists use today. As computer-generated works, the art bears the mark of the media that assisted with its creation. Some works are graphic displays of mathematical concepts. In these, the computer has determined a distinctive appearance, a syntax, that makes the work easily recognizable as computer art. In other works, where the artist has used the tools for more traditional artistic intention, these marks are less obvious. In many of the interactive works, the computer serves another function. By redefining the relationship between the viewer and the art, the computer serves as a medium as well as a tool.
Within SIGGRAPH, the Art and Design Show is one of the few places where individual voices are expressed through technology. Much of computer graphics work is collaborative, and here is one opportunity to consider the statement of a single artist. Unlike most of the conference, this art is not intended to be in the service of commercialism. Instead it offers comment on the role of technology in society today.
Chair
Deanna Morse, Grand Valley State University
Exhibition Artworks:
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
5 BP Band 4: Eclipse
Artist(s): [Macko]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
A Brief History
Artist(s): [Wills]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
A-Volve: A real-time interactive environment
Artist(s): [Sommerer and Mignonneau]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Anatomy Lesson
Artist(s): [Krause]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Apex
Artist(s): [Glynn]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Azure
Artist(s): [Russ]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Beesight Hex (Lesson 55)
Artist(s): [Macko]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Biogenesis
Artist(s): [Latham]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Blue Glass
Artist(s): [Suffern]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Blue Madonna
Artist(s): [Krause]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
blue worms
Artist(s): [McSherry]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Bolero
Artist(s): [White]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Boy Crazy
Artist(s): [Longo]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
BP Army I (The Waggle Dance)
Artist(s): [Macko]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Broken Childhood
Artist(s): [Casadesús]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Camoflage
Artist(s): [Singhakowin]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Color <-> Control: Flags
Artist(s): [Morino]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Displaced Dice
Artist(s): [Herken]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Don't Drop the Package
Artist(s): [Bauer, DiComo, Leung, and Martino]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Dysfonction
Artist(s): [Grancher]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
End of the Street
Artist(s): [Ursyn]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Equinoctial Sleep
Artist(s): [Jamison]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Evans vs. Weston
Artist(s): [Melnick]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Fantasy of Spring
Artist(s): [Chang]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
First Things First
Artist(s): [Gleeson]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Fish #9
Artist(s): [Valesco]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Flame
Artist(s): [Artoux]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Flame #12
Artist(s): [Draves]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Furble
Artist(s): [Ohba]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Hail Mary
Artist(s): [Chmelewski]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Imi & Vita
Artist(s): [Rollins]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Indiscriminate Visions
Artist(s): [Leeser]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Les Muriens
Artist(s): [Lannaud]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Lightening
Artist(s): [Chmelewski]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Love and Technology
Artist(s): [Hobbs]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Mann
Artist(s): [Crimzon]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Math II
Artist(s): [Bowen and Sideman]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Memorium Triptych
Artist(s): [Estate]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Mirage Illimité
Artist(s): [Benayoun and Escalle]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Mistaken Identity
Artist(s): [Steiner and Keon]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
MM9505
Artist(s): [Inakage]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Monster Party
Artist(s): [Hallier]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
N'a pas dit son premier mot
Artist(s): [Hébert]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
New Life Forms
Artist(s): [Kane]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Oscillation
Artist(s): [Bister]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Photomask #2
Artist(s): [Voci]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Photomask #4
Artist(s): [Voci]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Plastic Operation
Artist(s): [Furata]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [InstallationInteractive & Monitor-Based]
Please, Touch Me ...
Artist(s): [Guitart]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Polymath
Artist(s): [Sideman and Bowen]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Postquake LA: Still Life #1
Artist(s): [Krasniewicz]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Postquake LA: Still Life #2
Artist(s): [Krasniewicz]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Radiosity Ellipses with Depth of Field
Artist(s): [Kahrs]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Rambona
Artist(s): [Vesna]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Rave Safe
Artist(s): [Jaffers and Jaffers]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Realidade Real
Artist(s): [Santos]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
RENGA (Linked Images)
Artist(s): [Anzai]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Rest Rooms
Artist(s): [Binkley]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Safe Sex: Reconfigurations of Desire
Artist(s): [Woodard]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Search of Identity
Artist(s): [Roman]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Seasons of Life
Artist(s): [Kitagawa De Leon]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Self Portrait
Artist(s): [Bagdadi]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Sgraffito
Artist(s): [Weintraub]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Smoke and Mirrors I
Artist(s): [Geiger]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
still life
Artist(s): [Walker]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Stories Over Dessert—Part One
Artist(s): [Flores]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Surface Tension
Artist(s): [Fernon]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Techno Digesto Fetishism
Artist(s): [Innocent and Popa]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Covering Series #1
Artist(s): [Sokolin]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Covering Series #2, Enrobed Head
Artist(s): [Sokolin]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Covering Series #3
Artist(s): [Sokolin]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
The Hit
Artist(s): [Moragues]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
The Pen is Mightier
Artist(s): [Melnick]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Tomorrowland: Anamorphic Landscape Studies (Moonscapes)
Artist(s): [Burnett]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Tomorrowland: Anamorphic Landscape Studies (Text cut-up)
Artist(s): [Burnett]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Turbulence: An Interactive Installation Exploring Artificial Life
Artist(s): []
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Uncle Louie's Obedience School
Artist(s): [Pratt]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Untitled
Artist(s): [Bray]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Untitled
Artist(s): [Bowen]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Untitled #3
Artist(s): [Casamayor]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Urban Man
Artist(s): [Whitaker]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Ursa Minor Blue (excerpt)
Artist(s): [Tamura]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Valley Petroglyphs II
Artist(s): [Hettinga]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Veiled Egg
Artist(s): [Nessim]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Virtual Bust/Franz K.
Artist(s): [Landreth and (art)n Laboratory]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Waxweb
Artist(s): [Blair]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Animation & Video]
Window Verses
Artist(s): [Fitzner]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [Installation]
Winke Winke
Artist(s): [Stocker and Hörtner]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Type: [2D & Wall-Hung]
Xian Series
Artist(s): [Ying]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
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Exhibition Writings and Presentations:
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Title:
Computer Sculpture: New Horizons
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
An essay that focuses on opportunities for a new approach to computer-generated sculpture through the use of the interactive, user participatory attributes associated with virtual reality technology. The text briefly reviews the progress of sculpture from a static, physical art form through the use of computers as sculpture visualization tools, towards true ‘virtual sculpture’ as a metaphysical, three-dimensional experience. The author discusses two of his own recent prototype virtual reality pieces to demonstrate his projection of possible future trends in the viewers’ immersion in sculpture as an activity and an art form, not merely as an observer of a set of objects.
[View PDF]Title: The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Computer Events
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
Much confusion and hyperbole surrounds discussions of the aesthetics of interactive computer events. This essay works to clarify some of this confusion by analyzing the differences between interactive and non-interactive events, reviewing the variety of forms included under the umbrella term “interactivity,” and investigating the theoretical rationales offered to support claims of interactivity’s superiority derived from psychological, political, art historical, and techno-historical sources. Building on this analysis, the essay suggests extensions to current GUI design canons that uniquely attend to interactivity as an aesthetic issue. It also investigates the challenging interactivity possibilities of emerging technologies.
[View PDF]Title: The Engineering of Vision and the Aesthetics of Computer Art
Author(s):
Category: Art Paper
Abstract Summary:
The rise of modern image industries, such as computer graphics, human factors research, or computer vision, can be seen as a part of the shift to the post-industrial society of perceptual labor. In contemporary society, human vision has become the key instrument of labor: the channel of communication between human and machine. If the industry aims to make human vision as productive and as efficient as possible, the computer artist, in contrast, can be defined as a designer of bad interfaces: interfaces that are inefficient, wasteful, confusing.
[View PDF]Title: There are No Philosophic Problems Raised by Virtual Reality
Author(s):
Category: Art Essay
Abstract Summary:
There is widespread agreement that virtual reality presents serious new challenges to perceived ways of thinking about such fundamental concepts as reality, simulation, representation, perception, and sensation. It has been seen as a practice that might have deep consequences for conventional ways of construing the mind-body problem, including the minimal requirements for a body, requirements for the coherent reception of sensation, and the relation between reason and intuition. Most fundamental of all, it has been said to entail a new kind of space, differing from Cartesian and other spaces and requiring new definitions of space and form. This paper argues, on the contrary, that virtual reality does not raise any new philosophic problems.
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