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Jochen Gerz «IBM Colour Ribbon»
Jochen Gerz, «IBM Colour Ribbon», 1971
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 Jochen Gerz
«IBM Colour Ribbon»

Unlike the videotape, the typewriter ribbon directly and visibly shows the information transferred to it. As a waste product, it embodies mechanical text production as a process in time.