STEALING ATTENTION

Viewers were asked to watch a game of 3-Card Monte on the animation and assigned a task to count the number of times the Queen of Hearts appeared. Most failed to see that, in the background, images of antiquities looted from Iraq in 2003 were being removed from the depicted shelves one-by-one. The real distractor was the claim of weapons of mass destruction prior to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. 

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Animation and Installations: The panels, empty shelf, and works on paper show objects being looted from museums. Viewers may then more readily form associations with the objects shown disappearing from shelves in the animation.

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	Stealing Attention		Black Room: Shelf		Disappearing Act

Mixed Media

Jack of Hearts

Grafitti in Iraq

Broken Head

Conning Baghdad

Fleeced Charriot

King of Hearts

3-Card Monte

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Jack of Clubs