Cog is an in situ installation produced for No-Automático. It deals with issues like copyright, originality and the new. The pretext of the installation was the copyright dispute between Fischli and Weiss and Honda due to Cog.
In May 2003, Fischli and Weiss threatened legal action against Honda over similarities between the Cog commercial and The Way Things Go. The artists felt that the ad's creators had "obviously seen" their film, and should have consulted them. The nature of this conflict is self-referential in the sense that it itself behaves like a Rube Goldberg machine
The installation consisted of 3 elements: the projection of The Way Things Go through 1000 meters of video cable and 2.60 meters of audio adapters, a loops concert for 8 headphones and a sound sculpture made with electric fans. Through the complex and long flux of data the information was degraded to a point where the machine seems to stop working.
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Fans
