Meaningful/Meaningless (17,280 Flags a Day) In the age of the Internet, culture is bombarded with a saturation of images and symbology. So much in fact, that meaning bankrupts itself in the devaluation of the symbol. What then, is the meaning of any given image or gesture in such an environment? What power is left in an act of expression? In this piece, a JAVA applet is used to burn various representations of the US flag every 5 seconds, creating a space in which an image of the flag is being burnt 8560 times per day per machine it is run upon. Its significance is circumspect in that it is only an image. But then, in an age when the FIrst World is bombarded by symbols to numbness, and other symbols are/have been bombarded, can any symbolic act have any sense of 'meaning'? ..................................................................... Enter