On the afternoon of April 13, 2005, at four o'clock, on a large lawn next to the Muma Mountain Golf Course in the southern suburbs of Chengdu, forty-one male and female art students from the Sichuan Conservatory of Music Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts presented a contemporary ode to life - "@41" - with their flesh and blood. The forty-one "nudes", forming the classic email code "@" and falling down in sequence according to the "domino" method.