Posts By: Rosa Menkman

Martin Feuz is an independent researcher with a strong interest...

Martin Feuz (CH) Google Personal Search – What are we to make of it?

By Rosa Menkman, November 17, 2009

Martin Feuz is an independent researcher with a strong interest in human-information interactions. Specifically, he focuses on exploratory (Web) search and the ways in which such interactions can be meaningfully and experimentally supported. In his recent work, he undertook a critical analysis of Google personal search to open the lid of Google’s black box a [...]

Michael Stevenson presents a Google art expose

By Rosa Menkman, November 16, 2009

Michael Stevenson is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. For the Society of the Query evening program he presented a very interesting selection of artistic and activist projects that were engaged with (the re-attribution of) different elements related to Web search. Query The IP-Browser (Govcom.org) for instance [...]

Ton van het Hof (NL) about flarf poetry

By Rosa Menkman, November 16, 2009

Flarf poetry can be characterized as an avant-garde poetry movement of the late 20th and the early 21st century. In flarf poetry a poet roams the Internet using random word searches, to distill newly created phrases and bizarre constructions that he later shares with the flarf community. Flarf poetry can be described as a ‘readymade’, [...]

Daniel van der Velden (NL): “We need an alternative, dynamic search engine to complement Googlekea”

By Rosa Menkman, November 14, 2009

Peripheral Forces: On the Relevance of Marginality in Networks Daniel van der Velden is a is designer and researcher. He organized the Quaero (Latin for ‘I seek’) event at the Jan van Eyck in 2007 and has been working on alternative interfaces for search results, to move away from the ‘top-10-search-result-experience’, and to create new [...]