This has been done before. The brazilian artist Joeser Alvarez da Silva created a webpage with a line that was (virtually) about 400 km. long, if I remember well. He put several references to art history every 1mt. or so, and called it "the largest artwork in the world". Even so, in my opinion it introduced the same concept that is the base to this artwork.
– Pau.
> "The Unprinted Mile" is a text document consisting of one line exactly
> 5,760 pages long. A standard piece of paper is 11 inches long, a
> mile is 63,360 inches long, thus 63,360 divided by 11 equals 5760,
> giving us our page count.
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> "The Unprinted Mile" is both a conceptual object and a physical
> object. The conceptual object exists only in the digital space, and
> the physical object can be born through the process of printing
> itself.
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> If one were to physically manifest "The Unprinted Mile", the document
> would be printed, and the pages would thus have to be laid on the
> ground, bottom edge to top edge for the entire page count. The end
> result would be "The Unprinted Mile Printed".
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