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193:, Finistère, 1986. Computerised projection of light patterns on the ocean in response to "the movements of the tides, the currents, the wind and so forth" against "a set of stranded, wide-eyed, steel megaliths". Kersalé describes it in an interview as intended as "a kind of encephalogram of the sea". It was filmed by
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312:Morse code
117:Francilien
57:Douarnenez
1033:690390144
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489:France 24
275:Barcelona
138:Le Figaro
37:Vincennes
1085:52349752
975:, p. 23.
121:Baccarat
982:Sources
686:(1993)
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298:l'eau
147:Thieu
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