Banksy embedding a shredder into the frame of his Girl With A Balloon has caught the world’s attention.

In this post, we look at the key questions and offer up some likely answers (from an art nerd perspective). We will start by looking at the key engineering questions:

• Could a device that had been in the frame for up to 10 years have the battery life to listen for a remote trigger?
• Was there a functional shredder in the frame or was a pre-shredded work spooled out?
• Was the shredder shown in Banksy's video the device used to shred the painting?

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Myth Busting Banksy The recent incident around Banksy embedding a shredder into the frame of his Girl With A Balloon has caught the world's attention. As a nerd obsessed with the intersection of art and tech, I too was sucked in over the weekend in trying to unravel the mysteries behind Banksy's self-shredding paint www.artnome.com