How Do You Download a Seating License to Retract Seat Spikes?

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The discussion centers around the innovative concept of the Internet Chair, which features a magnetic stripe card reader that allows users to download a seating license, retracting spikes that guard the seat. This technology was showcased at the San Francisco Art Institute as part of the SeatSale exhibition, organized by Independent Curators International and curated by Steve Dietz. The chair promotes a unique experience for weary travelers, encouraging them to use government-issued photo ID cards to obtain a free seating license. However, users must agree to terms that prohibit capturing any memories of the experience, emphasizing a philosophy that "remembering is copying and copying is theft." The exhibition has also been featured in various other museums and galleries, highlighting its conceptual art significance.
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Download a Seating License to retract the seat's content-guard spikes
Steve Mann, 2001 Feb. 7th

Here is the Internet Chair with magnetic stripe card reader and spikes that retract when a seating license is downloaded from a license server in response to input from the card reader incoroprated into the chair. The license server is in the 19 inch relay rack behind the Internet Chair.

The text on the scrolling LED sign mounted to the back of the chair reads:
WEARY TRAVELLERS NO LONGER NEED TO STAND FOR HOURS ON END... USE YOUR GOVERNMENT ISSUED PHOTO ID CARD TO DOWNLOAD A FREE SEATING LICENSE.

The opening was Wednesday Feb. 7th, at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI, 800 Chestnut St.), organized by Independent Curators International (ICI) of New York, and curated by Steve Dietz of walkerart.org (Walker Art Center) of Minneapolis. SeatSale was also exhibited at various other museums and galleries, such as Austin Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, etc..
 
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Don't want to be sitting there when your license expires! :smile:
 
Arg! :eek: :smile:
 
Terms and Conditions :

You agree not to capture any photographic, visual, or other forms of memory of this service. You further agree to forget what your Seating Experience (TM) was like after your free trial Seating License expires.

:smile:
 
Gokul43201 said:
Terms and Conditions :

You agree not to capture any photographic, visual, or other forms of memory of this service. You further agree to forget what your Seating Experience (TM) was like after your free trial Seating License expires.

:smile:

That's because "remembering is copying and copying is Theft." :biggrin:
 

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