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  "id": "symbolizing-everything",
  "title": "Symbolizing Everything",
  "slug": "symbolizing-everything",
  "year_start": 2016,
  "year_end": null,
  "circa": false,
  "status": "archived",
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  ],
  "themes": [
    "installation",
    "code",
    "light",
    "network",
    "symbol",
    "automation"
  ],
  "summary": "An installation combining Java, lights, and a Tumblr bot, treating symbolic overflow and system behavior as one linked field.",
  "medium": [
    "installation",
    "networked system"
  ],
  "materials": [
    "Java",
    "lights",
    "screen",
    "Tumblr bot"
  ],
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    "java",
    "networked publishing",
    "light behavior"
  ],
  "core_concepts": [
    "symbolic overload",
    "system as image",
    "automation"
  ],
  "body_relation": "viewer in relation to live symbolic system",
  "ethics": {
    "pii": "none",
    "consent": "installation",
    "retention": "archive"
  },
  "provenance": "Documented in 2023 work samples appendix",
  "docs": {
    "notes": "/lineage/symbolizing-everything/"
  },
  "media": {
    "images": [
      "/img/lineage/thesis/java_piece.jpg"
    ],
    "video": [],
    "audio": []
  },
  "related_ids": [
    "two-lefts-and-another-right-out-the-door",
    "memory-engine"
  ],
  "quote": "A symbolic system is still a room you can enter.",
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}