Our friend Max Montalvo is launching an installation art piece June 8 in Kingston at the Heather Hayne's Gallery in Kingston.

Inspired by the works of John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Stan Brakhage & The Tragically Hip, 161! is a visual poem that explores human perception.



This six-minute piece plays continuously. Following the opening sequence that begins with Sarah Harmer reciting Pablo Neruda�s �Ode to Age�, the remaining 161 scenes are randomly rearranged by a computer program each time the film is played. The mathematical expression for the total number of combinations in which the scenes can be rearranged is 161! (161x 160 x 159 x � x 3 x 2 x 1).

There are 7.59 x 10286 versions of the film. That number is larger than all the atoms in the observable universe.

Here is the teaser.