Several artists are using the online auction process as performance art. The Times article describes three such projects and concludes, "All three online projects are asking viewers, in a commodity-driven culture, whether one's personal identity is defined by nothing more than a collection of stuff."
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/05/technology/05ARTS.html
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