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Second Shift Gives Obsolete Machines New Jobs

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A Belgian art project restores retired office machines and assigns them autonomous roles as artists, clerks, storytellers, and timekeepers.

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Second Shift treats its machines like employees in a quiet institution: a Roland pen plotter reports for work at 09:30 and makes one unique drawing, while a dot-matrix printer produces a story that exists only as paper moves through light. The site documents the project through work records, departments, machine registers, and a live shift log.

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August 18’s newborn domains include an obsolete pen plotter clocking in at 09:30, emergency warnings designed for sight, touch, or hearing, a funeral-folder tool calibrated for printer drift, and photographs of Colombian rental signs turned into a housing map.

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