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In a world increasingly determined to measure things, artist Lucy
Kimbell has decided to measure her own performance by creating a
weekly index, the LIX. It goes up if she is busy on her own creative
projects or spends time with close friends, and it goes down if she has
a bad dream or her credit card bill is too high. The LIX is therefore a
contemporary portrait for the real-time economy. More about the LIX
| Results of poll |
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This is complete nonsense
and a waste of public money |
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22.9% |
| I like the LIX |
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64.3% |
| I don't give a hoot |
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12.9% |
News
After a year of weekly updates, the LIX Index was terminated in March
2003. Launched on Channel 4 television a year previously, it faithfully
tracked the performance of an individual through aggregating a set of
weekly data, from the personal to the financial. Like any other
performance indicator the LIX has had its ups and downs. This website
will be kept live as an archive. |
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| April 2002 - March 2003 |
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| Final LIX value |
37,669 |
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| Launch value (22 April, 2002) |
4,887 |
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| Change |
+770% |
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| High |
37,669.27 |
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| Low |
-318,754.20 |
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LIX wobbles during last weeks
The LIX fluctuated wildly during the course of its year of existence.
Some of the contributing factors such as "Impact of world events" have
had a much stronger impact than was envisaged when the index was
calibrated in March 2002. Reflecting on the experience of tediously
updating it every week for a year leads its creator to sympathisize
with all those who have to fill in forms regularly as part of their
work. The list of factors should probably have included one called
"Impact of LIX on real life" - reflecting both the effort involved in
updating it but also the curious, and sometimes confusing, results it
generated.
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