Posts Tagged: art

Payal Arora – The making of art knowledge via Google Images in rural India

By admin, November 11, 2013

Payal Arora is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media and Communication – Faculty of History, Culture and Communication at Rotterdam Erasmus University. With a research interest in digital learning, she contributed to the conference with a very interesting (albeit also worrying) study on the  search results Google provides to Indian pupils in rural [...]

Rebecca Lieberman on the Poetics of Search

By Maya Livio, November 11, 2013

Short interview with Rebecca Lieberman from network cultures on Vimeo. “Demented Panda and Koki wandered through the small plot of land. Except it was no longer only a small plot of land, but also an enormous food court. Except it wasn’t just a food court, but also an outdoor rehearsal space lent to artists by [...]

Anja Groten – The Aesthetics of Power

By martaburugorri, November 11, 2013

In this third session Anja Groten presents “The aesthetics of power”. Unfortunately Anja Groten was not present at the conference, instead, she replaced her physical presence with an audiovisual presentation. Anja Groten is a designer and researcher based in Amsterdam who presents for Society of  the Query  her project called “Machina recordatio“. Machina Recordatio gives [...]

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’, [...]

Christophe Bruno – The transmutation of language into a global market

By dennis deicke, November 14, 2009

French artist Christophe Bruno introduced the audience into some aspects of his art concerning search engines, espacially Google. In order to explain his latest project Dadameter, he initially presented a selection of projects he has worked on over the last years. His career as an aritst started with the project Epiphanies which Bruno established in [...]