Well, you can argue that anyone could make a switch go on and off, but tjat is really not the point.

The point is more on the line of what occurs to a visitor -- what sort of communication or experience -- when he approaches this exhibit and has to stand observing someone dicking with the lights in an empty room. It raises some intersting questions about perception and expectation, actually, just imagining it.

If you take an experiment in this kind of transcendental communication (meaning that it jumps beyond the normal set of forms and meanings) and try to force it in to a normal context (such as "why are they wasting electricity?") then you might as well curl up with a more normal kind of communication such as a good book. It doesn't quite work that way. They guy who rigged it up IS trying to make apoint, but he is is trying to make it outside the normal rule set and some people find this offensive or irritating.

But it does communicate. This is not a no-clothes Emperor. It's an Emperor who dresses funny.

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