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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Limits & Demonstrations''}}
{{Acts}}
[[File:Limits & Demonstrations.png|thumb|right|Emily, Ben, and Bob in front of the exhibition text.]]
{{title}} is the first {{KRZ}} interlude, released on February 8, 2013 between Acts [[Act I|I]] and [[Act II|II]]. It features [[Emily, Ben, and Bob]] visiting an art museum as they walk around a retrospective exhibition of [[Lula Chamberlain]]'s work. The player, acting as the three characters, may navigate the exhibition space while discussing and interacting with the works on display.
* ''Overdubbed Nam June Paik installation, in the style of Edward Packer''. 1965, 1973, 1980. Magnetic tape, hand-held tape playback head, speaker system, voice of the artist, computer-synthesized speech.
** This installation pays homage to [[wikipedia:Nam June Paik|Nam June Paik]]'s ''[https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/9536 Random Access]'', originally displayed in 1963. The original piece asks the audience to create a personal music composition by guiding a playback head across strips of magnetic audiotape on the wall. Lula's interpretation combines this concept of interaction with a "choose your own adventure"-style narrative popularized by the author [[wikipedia:Edward Packard (writer)|Edward Packard]]. The interactive audioplay is narrated by Lula herself. In parts, the narrative diverges in irreconcilable ways, leaving the viewer to wonder whether what they just heard is factually true. [[Joseph]] and [[Donald]] also appear in the recordings, and it is generally understood that this exhibit is Lula's version of the events of her "love polygon" with the two of them.
** A flowchart for the dialogue in this piece can be viewed [[:File:Overdubbed Nam June Paik flowchart.png|here]].
* ''Visage''. 1984. Unknown media.
** A black and white profile of [[Donald]]'s face. This is more easily discernible with the video sped up, as viewable [https://consolidatedpower.co/~donald/zero/images/8/82/Visage.webm here].
** Inspired by a poem in the 1983 book ''The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed'', presented having been authored by a computer program called [[wikipedia:Racter|Racter]], programmed by William Chamberlain.
== Little Berlin exhibition ==
Little Berlin – a gallery, artist collective, and exhibition space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – hosted an art show featuring recreations of the in-game artworks as part of a real-life exhibition titled [http://www.littleberlin.org/calendar/2013/10/17/limits-and-demonstrations-a-lula-chamberlain-retrospective "Limits and Demonstrations: A Lula Chamberlain Retrospective"]. The exhibition opened on October 4, 2013 and was curated by Lee Tusman, with future selected showings on October 10 and 17. The October 17 date featured a special reception and talk with [[Cardboard Computer]], via Google Hangouts (also streamed online via Google Hangouts), in collaboration with the Grassroots Game Conference.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/events/722398061110476/ Limits And Demonstrations: A Lula Chamberlain Retrospective - Facebook]</ref>
A showing scheduled for October 24 was cancelled after the gallery's host building was temporarily closed after receiving building code violations.<ref>[https://hiddencityphila.org/2013/10/viking-mill-in-kensington-shut-by-l-artists-makers-out/ Viking Mill In Kensington Shut By L&I; Artists, Makers Out – Hidden City Philadelphia]</ref>
