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Notes:
In Self-Portrait (The Jason Salavon Show), 1998, the artist designed custom hardware and software to overtake the operation of a TV remote control, resulting in a device to autonomously tune a satellite system to what Salavon would most likely watch on TV
The use of problematistic likelihoods (rather than a rigid system) resulted in the machine surfing channels periodically. Surfing is an activity that has since moved from TV viewing practice to the internet, a phenomenon clearly understood by Salavon, who