Discourse on Cabin 3
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Weiner, Seth, 1976-
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Discourse on Cabin Three
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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Joan Jonas.
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An adaptation of the Unabomber's cabin placed on four automobile wheels, Cabin 3 was installed as a hybrid cabin-vehicle-writing device on the elevated plaza in front of 105 Massachusetts Ave on MIT's campus. Inside the cabin was the same model typewriter used by the Unabomber to write his manifesto. The typewriter was mechanically connected to the cabin's rear axle so that each letter typed rolled the cabin back in imperceptibly small increments. From late May to early July, the cabin's door remained open to the public and invited viewer interaction. Shelves of three-ring binders provided a place for people to place their typed pages within the cabin's walls. Members of the MIT community, as well as the general public, left several new pages of thoughts, messages, and gobbledygook each day, addressed to MIT, the artist, to Kaczynski, to acquaintances, and to the ether.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-109).
Date issued
2002Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of ArchitecturePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Architecture.