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Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 02:31:50 JST Bruce Sterling @bruces

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/116160762983975837
*One doesn't normally see a "Hyperart Tomason" of that size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson
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  Attached: 1 image The Choluteca Bridge in Honduras (often called "El Puente de Choluteca" or "The Bridge to Nowhere") was completed in 1998, just a few months before Hurricane Mitch struck in late October that same year. So the bridge was only finished a few months (around 6 months or less) before the hurricane devastated the region and shifted the river, leaving the bridge standing but no longer spanning water.
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  Hyperart Thomasson
  
  Thomasson or Hyperart Thomasson (Japanese: Tomason トマソン or Chōgeijutsu Tomason 超芸術トマソン) is a type of conceptual art named by the Japanese artist Akasegawa Genpei in the 1980s. It refers to a useless relic or structure that has been preserved as part of a building or the built environment, which has become a piece of art in itself. These objects, although having the appearance of pieces of conceptual art, were not created to be viewed as such. Akasegawa deemed them even more art-like than art itself, and named them "hyperart". In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Thomasson, especially since the publication of Akasegawa's work on the subject in English in 2010. Etymology The term Thomasson comes from the professional baseball player Gary Thomasson, who was signed by the Yomiuri Giants for a record-breaking sum of money, and spent his final two seasons with the team (1981–1982) failing to score any hits for the team, coming close to setting the league strikeout record before being benched. Akasegawa viewed Thomasson's useless position on the team as a fitting analogy for "an object, part of...
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  Gray Abbott (grayabbott@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 02:44:21 JST Gray Abbott
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  @bruces Well, now I have a whole new art obsession.
  
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  spiny / TMT (spiny@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Mar-2026 04:32:43 JST spiny / TMT
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  @bruces well, thats just marvelous, what a great wiki article :)
  
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