Road Apple Test (1998) "Road Apple Test" Is a collaborative installation/website based on the 1967 artist's book, Royal Road Test, but Edward Ruscha, et al. As Ruscha and company threw a Royal Typewriter out the window of a speeding car, we threw a Macintosh SE off the back of a pickup truck. We labeledand documented the debris, calculated distance, weighed and meaxsured the pieces, and classified them according to type. Less than a decade old, this computer was turned into trash by its obsolescence, destroyed by the chuck out of the truck, and given meaning again by an obsessive cataloguing. Technical Requirements: Flash 4 plugin

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Brooke A. Knight is an artist, teacher, and critic based in Maine. His recent work includes investigations into the making of meaning out information, and the body/machine complex. He recently delivered a paper at the 2000 CAA conference on personal webcams, considering them vis-a-vis their historical precedents in performance, self-portraiture, and documentary production. He received an MFA in photography form CalArts in 1995, and also studied at UMBC and Davidson College.

Owen Smith is an artist, writer and teacher who has long been interested in ideas and forms of expression that are related to what he describes as alternative art forms, most specifically the Fluxus group. His work as a historian on Fluxus Was recently published in his book Fluxus: the history of an Attitude (San Diego State University Press, 1998). http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/press/newtitles.html As an artist he has exhibited widely in both traditional venues and online sites and he recently completed the development of an online documentation site for a year long project, titled Proof of Existence. He is currently a faculty member in Art History and New Media at the University of Maine.