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The SHIM “Exquisite Codes” project began in 2020 as a response to the Covid pandemic lock-
downs. Using the surrealist Exquisite Corpse concept of an interactive and absurdist parlor game applied to a time when actual human connectivity was at a nadir. The game allowed many artists to contribute to a single shared art object that was playful and unpredictable, but that could be produced remotely, “stitched together”, shipped easily, and yet maintain a “corporeal presence” that contained the same auratic shadow of a typical art object. The model was simple. Any group of artists can be …