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27 News Uncovers Bizarre Use Of State Cell Phones

Two of the highest monthly cell phone bills flagged by a state audit were the result of interactive art

An audit of the use of state assigned cell phones by more than nine thousand workers found twenty monthly bills of between $311 and $1456.

27 News has uncovered two of those bills were rung up by patrons of a museum.

In September 2004, several exhibits of artist Xu Bing’s work were displayed at Madison’s Elvehjem Museum of Art.

Museum Director Russell Panczenko said the exhibits included expressions of technology’s influence on our culture.

Panczenko said one exhibit consisted of two state cell phones.