INVISIBLECURSOR.COM (2008) - Rafael Rozendaal
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If so, that's pretty great -- like breaking a net art fourth wall.
Compare that to interface design experiments that exile your mouse button altogether:
http://dontclick.it/
Compare that to earlier Netochka Nezvanova .mov pieces that eroded your browser frame and began eating away at your desktop image.
Compare that to painstation hardware ( http://www.painstation.de/ ) that shreds your physical hand ( http://www.fursr.com/furyoureyesonly/?show=Hall_of_Pain ).
Compare that to Piotr Szyhalski "The Chest Piece" (more or less archived here: http://web.archive.org/web/20021015053433/www.mcad.edu/home/faculty/szyhalski/spl/title.html ), where you induce mind-numbing/healing functions by assigning extraordinary powers to the "Memory of Black" via the quasi-medical technique of palming.
I want invisiblehand.org, a net art piece that uses a combination of language, networks, animation, imagery, conceptual framing, and mind control to cause my right hand to disappear.
And speak of the devil:
http://invisiblehand.org
Where is my hand?
I imagine you could use blindspot-based techniques with repetitive on-screen imagery to make your hand disappear :)