Combining Robert Morris' Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard's writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay.
Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.
If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.
Link: http://www.caleblarsen.com/projects/a-tool-to-deceive-and-sl...
What I found curious about it is that it's listed under 2008. Has it been selling itself before or did it just take two years for it to convince the artist to plug it in?
...and the Box has not published its source code under the link on that page either :(