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GRID - January 2006

installation/performance by Smith and Yaquinto

Matt R. Smith and Giacomo Yaquinto
An Office Worker's Guide to Entropy, 2006
mixed media
approx. 4' x 4' x 8'

"An Office Worker's Guide to Entropy" riffs on the minimalist aesthetics by reinterpreting the concept of entropy and the cube. Entropy, the progression of all natural phenomena to their lowest energy forms, is central to such minimalist works as Robert Smithson's "Asphalt Rundown" (1969) and "Partially Buried Woodshed" (1970). Production and preservation of information in free market capitalism follow the laws of entropy. The destruction of information benefits the system by securing the superiority of only what is significant. Reducing usable historical information in business is its natural transformation to the state of least liability.