Cyborg researcher Steve Mann has produced a piece of conceptual art called "License to Seat." It's a chair with a magnetic stripe card reader which reads your credit card and issues you a "seating license" for a nominal charge. Once you are issued the license, spikes in the chair retract, allowing the buyer to sit down. A great commentary on the concept of copyright licenses and the absurd extent to which they could be taken.
Thursday, January 20, 2005
that chair's not safe
Cyborg researcher Steve Mann has produced a piece of conceptual art called "License to Seat." It's a chair with a magnetic stripe card reader which reads your credit card and issues you a "seating license" for a nominal charge. Once you are issued the license, spikes in the chair retract, allowing the buyer to sit down. A great commentary on the concept of copyright licenses and the absurd extent to which they could be taken.
