transmediale

Google – One Week Performance Piece

Year: 
2011
Format:
performance

From 1 January to 31 December 2011, Interface Artist Johannes P Osterhoff has been publishing all of his search queries with the search engine Google in a one-year Performance piece called Google. Since for each search automatically a website has been generated, Osterhoff's searches surface surprisingly well-ranked in Google's search results. During the week of transmediale Osterhoff opens this hacking of Google's business model to collaboration.

 

Follow the searches of JODI, Olia Lialina, mspr0, Rene Walter and others or use Google publicly yourself at google-performance.org

Site and registration opens: Mon, 23 Feb 2012
Publishing of searches starts: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 (0:00)
And will be closed: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 (23:59)

 

(Image: Credits Mi Sun Lee)

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