"google" at "isolation and empowerment after web 2.0", transmediale 2012
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From 1 January until 31 December 2011, Johannes P Osterhoff published all his search queries with the search engine Google in a One-year Performance piece called “Google”. With these slides the project was presented at the "Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0" panel during transmediale 2012 in Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.TRANSCRIPT
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“Google”
@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0” February 3, 2012
Johannes P Osterhoff
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My searches from September 3, 2011…
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…lead to the (first) Google result page…
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fuereinebesserewelt.info/google-one-year-piece-osterhoff – Thanks!
…and from there to the page of my performance.(Feel free to donate or flattr!)
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The search for “transmediale 2012 google”
shows the result of the performance
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I handed in “Google” to the Flusser residency
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There is no book called “Luhmann for Dummies”
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Search for Hendrik Efert, Journalist
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The query and the crisis of the archive
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Transprivacy, curated by Florian Kuhlmann
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JODI performed at c-base
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The search for the infamous tschk! talks in Berlin on page one of the mobile Google
results
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Demo #1“Google” One-Year Performance Piece Jan 1, 2011 0:00:00 — Dec 31, 2011 23:59:59
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Tehching HsiehRelated Work
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Cage PiecePhoto: Cheng Wei Kuong. © 1979 Tehching Hsieh
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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/TehchingHsiehExhibitMOMA.jpg
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Time Clock Piece © Tehching Hsieh
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Outside of any building for one year
© Tehching Hsieh
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Rope Piece
© Tehching Hsieh
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Today
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My (from time to time updated) manifesto
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Submit ButtonRelated Work
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2003
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Submit Button, 2003–2006
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Submit Button, Hyperkult XX, 2011
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Submissive hierachies in old and new media
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Freedom from PornRelated Work
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2010
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Google JuiceRelated Work
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2010
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@ Tele Internet, Ars Electronica 2010
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I and…
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…other artists got addicted
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Rise in “page rank”…
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…when searching a lot :)
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FakebookRelated Work
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2010
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2010
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Post-PrivacyContext
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slidesha.re/qYU6Cc
Christian HelleriX, February 2009
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weissesroessl.at/en-spa-hotel-austria-sauna.htm
Jeff Jarvis
buzzmachine.comWWGDPrivate Parts
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„Öffentliche Daten nützen, private Daten schützen.“ – Hackerethik
Wau Holland
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Wau_Holland.jpg
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Loss of CTRLContext
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Owen Mundy: “Give me my Data”
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“Europe vs. Facebook”
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Michael Seemannaka msprOctrl-verlust.net
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Authorship of UsersContext
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An author is broadly defined as “the person who originates or gives existence to anything” and that authorship determines responsibility
for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author
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A user is a person who uses a computer or Internet service. A user may have a user account that identifies the user by a username (also user
name), screen name (also screenname)…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_(computing)
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Photo: A. Jaeckel, Berlin
author or user?
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One year of Google search = 8481 searches, @ Filmwinter Stuttgart 2012
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Demo #2“Google” One-Week Performance Piece during tm2k+12
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johannes-p-osterhoff.com@masterhare
One-Year Piecegoogle-performance.org
One-Week Piecegoogle.johannes-p-osterhoff.com#GoogleTM
@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0” February 3, 2012
Johannes P Osterhoff