It was only after art technician Susan Dixon decided to pursue her own amateur investigation that the possibility of a more natural origin emerged.
Arts economist Françoise Benhamou said the system had become "the general way of working – everyone uses it, all arts technicians".
Whether a costly special unemployment system that privileges actors and arts technicians can survive in an economic environment when scores of other professions are facing similar levels of job insecurity is the question political commentators in France are wrestling with.
Even more impressive is the in-house Artist Resource and Media Laboratory, which will provide arts technicians and dance artists with extensive access to video-editing, digital video creation, graphics layout and digital performance playback.
That's David Byrne all over: he's an art-technician, here to perform a service like a plumber or repairman.
They will be hung by a team led by Geoff Hoskins, a senior art handling technician of 20 years' experience, in the fortnight before the show opens on 12 September (the wall texts were completed only in the past few days – Smith's American colleagues slaved through the night to finish them on time).
To achieve this Kim Jong-il wrote a book on cinematic arts, sent technicians abroad to friendly communist countries to learn skills and even went so far as to kidnap a prominent film director from South Korea and force him to direct films in the People's Republic.
Garrett, 48, a semiretired movie studio art department technician, filled large buckets with water and sprayed his wood deck with fire retardant.
Not as a museum, either, but as a working person's house on an ordinary block filled with Xerox technicians, art students from Pratt Institute, old-time workers left over from the days before the Brooklyn Navy Yard closed in the nineteen-sixties, newcomers from Mexico and Nicaragua and the West Indies.
The general idea is that data are stored in a central database ('Synthesis') and users (curators, conservators, technicians, art historians, students, researchers, administrators etc).
