5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte

5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte“5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte” (2011) is a sculpture by Manuel Palou currently showing at Low Budget Gallery. The work consists solely of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing just under $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here, should you dare.

via Rhizome

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2 thoughts on “5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte”

  1. Describing this as art or sculpture is a stretch. More like an idea in a concrete form, pun intended. Cleverness is commonplace every generation, profundity is a little bit more rare.

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