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  • n an information-based age, the ability to search and organize information amounts to power. Search engines shape knowledge, modulate web traffic, and contribute to the creation of new semantics and meanings. Currently, Google's influence is
  • Event: Sommerer, Christa, Lecture at ELIA Biennal Conference "Re:search – In and Through the Arts", Lucerne (Switzerland), Nov 2004Institution: ELIA2004Comment:
  • “On the Road”, consists of twelve lenticular panels that explore the cinematic narrative potential of the photographic image in non-electronic form. The exhibition’s title “On The Road” makes reference to the defining work of the Beat Generation’s
  • FIRMAMENT - video
    In the center of the landscape, a lake (eye of the earth) is the mirror to a virtual cosmos, where life is designed by the stars' behaviors which simulate a living organism. An artificial world crowded with dots of lights and sounds, generate trough
  • In a time characterised by the loss of utopia and by major social and political change, creativity was called for – this was where artistic and philosophical concepts became increasingly important for creating new perspectives. Not the answer, but
  • A [hidden] transmission device, using Bluetooth protocols, continually searches for visible and open devices (mobile phones, laptops, PDAs etc) within an area. On discovering an open device, a simple message is sent, reading: “I am still alive”*. I
  • ArsRss -
    ArsRSS re-reads between approximately 100 art and new media related RSS feeds twice-daily, caches the feeds and completely re-writes its database of words found in the feeds. This makes for fast response times both for searching across feeds and for
  • The interactive 3D virtual reality installation "The Travels of Mariko Horo" is a reverse Marco Polo fantasy imagining the fictitious Mariko Horo as a Japanese time-traveler searching for the Western Paradise of Buddhist mythology, the Isles of the
  • A world premier of Stanza’s “Robotica: Control inside the panopticon” at The Victoria And Albert Museum, London. A playful robot installation - with performative and interactive aspects - that questions ideas of surveillance and tracking in popular
  • Weintraub, Linda. Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art´s Meaning in Contemporary Society, 1970-1990s. New York: Art Insights Inc., 1996.