The loop is the unsteady cornerstone of
contemporary technology, both a basic structure
and a computer code and the physical shape of reels
of film and tape that continue to inform conceptual
understanding of digital media. The loop is also a
metaphor for time-a cycle that returns to the same
disasters again and again-that opposes the sunnier
notion of time as a river running forward.

The Wheel of the Devil, a screening of video and
internet-based art presented by MTAA and critic
Ed Halter, promises a dark reflection on those ideas,
which they collapse in the formula "while (history)
{history=true;}."