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In this piece, the computer combines a still from the film of The Great Gatsby with the text of the novel one word at a time. As each word is inserted, it distorts a line of the image. Run time varies with processor speed, but ranges between 4 hours 30 minutes and 6 hours.

Reading Gatsby (1925)(1974)(2012)
Reading Gatsby (1925)(1974)(2012)
Computer, jpeg files, text of The Great Gatsby, software
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2012