Wolfgang Staehle The Road 2011 video animation
in collaboration with Jan Gerber
There is 1686553615927922354187720 possible combinations of arranging the 24 cards in the animation.
(To put it in perspective: if every person on earth (some 7 billion) would do one combination every second,
it would still take around 8 million years to lay down all possible combinations. One could say the duration
of the piece approaches eternity. Right now, it takes about 6 seconds for a new image to appear in the animation.
That makes the "duration" of the piece about 1.01193217x1025 seconds or 1.686553616x1023minutes or 2.810922693x1021
hours. "The Road" is a work of immense proportions).
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