A different sitcom plays on each of the three monitors: Three’s Company, Married with Children, and the Golden Girls, representing a chronology of life stages. The original programs appear only when the laugh tracks sound. In-between, randomly placed still images of slot machine fruits appear. Horowitz’s “game” uses a found measure of time—the combined laugh tracks—to order and structure the piece. The fruits suggest advertised products, the equipment on which the videos play, and the viewer, themselves. Watching immobile, not so much as moving their arm, the viewer does not play a game, but a game is played on them.

Slot Machine is conceived to run continuously.

Exhibitions

• Password: Ferdydurke, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA, 1996
• Sex and Drugs and Explosives, curated by Kenny Schachter, London Artforms Gallery, London, UK, 1996
• New Work from New York, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, USA, 2000
• Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, 2001
• Your Content Will Return Shortly, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT, USA, 2013