"google" at "isolation and empowerment after web 2.0", transmediale 2012

“Google”

@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0” February 3, 2012

Johannes P Osterhoff

My searches from September 3, 2011…

…lead to the (first) Google result page…

fuereinebesserewelt.info/google-one-year-piece-osterhoff – Thanks!

…and from there to the page of my performance.(Feel free to donate or flattr!)

The search for “transmediale 2012 google”

shows the result of the performance

I handed in “Google” to the Flusser residency

There is no book called “Luhmann for Dummies”

Search for Hendrik Efert, Journalist

The query and the crisis of the archive

Transprivacy, curated by Florian Kuhlmann

JODI performed at c-base

The search for the infamous tschk! talks in Berlin on page one of the mobile Google

results

Demo #1“Google” One-Year Performance Piece Jan 1, 2011 0:00:00 — Dec 31, 2011 23:59:59

Tehching HsiehRelated Work

Cage PiecePhoto: Cheng Wei Kuong. © 1979 Tehching Hsieh

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/TehchingHsiehExhibitMOMA.jpg

Time Clock Piece © Tehching Hsieh

Outside of any building for one year

© Tehching Hsieh

Rope Piece

© Tehching Hsieh

Today

My (from time to time updated) manifesto

Submit ButtonRelated Work

2003

Submit Button, 2003–2006

Submit Button, Hyperkult XX, 2011

Submissive hierachies in old and new media

Freedom from PornRelated Work

2010

Google JuiceRelated Work

2010

@ Tele Internet, Ars Electronica 2010

I and…

…other artists got addicted

Rise in “page rank”…

…when searching a lot :)

FakebookRelated Work

2010

2010

Post-PrivacyContext

slidesha.re/qYU6Cc

Christian HelleriX, February 2009

weissesroessl.at/en-spa-hotel-austria-sauna.htm

Jeff Jarvis

buzzmachine.comWWGDPrivate Parts

„Öffentliche Daten nützen, private Daten schützen.“ – Hackerethik

Wau Holland

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Wau_Holland.jpg

Loss of CTRLContext

Owen Mundy: “Give me my Data”

“Europe vs. Facebook”

Michael Seemannaka msprOctrl-verlust.net

Authorship of UsersContext

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

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)

Photo: A. Jaeckel, Berlin

author or user?

One year of Google search = 8481 searches, @ Filmwinter Stuttgart 2012

Demo #2“Google” One-Week Performance Piece during tm2k+12

johannes-p-osterhoff.com@masterhare

One-Year Piecegoogle-performance.org

One-Week Piecegoogle.johannes-p-osterhoff.com#GoogleTM

Google

@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0” February 3, 2012

Johannes P Osterhoff