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Artist talk by Johannes P Osterhoff and discussion about "Google, One-Year Performance Piece" at Museum of American Art in Berlin Friedrichshain on October 16, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
“Google”Johannes P Osterhoff@ Museum of American Art, BerlinOctober 16, 2011
1. “Google”2. Related Work3. Context4. Follow Up5. Discussion
My searches from September 3, 2011…
…lead to the 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!)
1. “Google”2. Related Work3. Context4. Follow Up5. Discussion
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
“1 year performance video” continues MTAA’s seriesof Updates. Our Updates resound seminal performance art from the 60s and 70s in part by replacing human processes with computer processes. “1 year performance video” updates Sam Hsieh’s One Year Performance 1978–1979 (aka Cage Piece).
When a viewer enters the piece she is presented with side-by-side videos of the artists trapped in identical cell-like rooms. The artists go about the mundane activities possible within a cell: in the morning they wake and breakfast; at around 1 pm and 7 pm they eat; sometimes they exercise; sometimes they surf the net; sometimes they sit.
My (from time to time updated) manifesto
Submit ButtonRelated Work
2003
Submit Button, 2003–2006
Submit Button, Hyperkult XX, 2011
Freedom from PornRelated Work
2010
Google JuiceRelated Work
2010
TELE INTERNET, Ars Electronica 2010
FakebookRelated Work
2010
2010
Evan Roth – Bad Ass Mother Fucker
1. “Google”2. Related Work3. Context4. Follow Up5. Discussion
Loss of CTRLContext
Owen Mundy: “Give me my Data”
“Europe vs. Facebook”
msprOctrl-verlust.net
Public Space (Online)Context
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)
author or user?
Photo: A. Jaeckel, Berlin
using vs.
being used
Joachim Stein – joaoflux.net
“Google lets us graze in order to milk us.”
– joaoflux
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
TransprivacyContext
Transprivacy (curated by Florian Kuhlmann)Stefan Riebel – In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.)Filippo Minelli – In your Ass
transprivacy.com
Stefan Riebel – In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.) Transprivacy
Next week – “Google” (Simulation)
250 xin Düsseldorf ’spublic space
1. “Google”2. Related Work3. Context4. Follow Up5. Discussion
I, Johannes P Osterhoff, shall do an one-year performance piece.
The piece is called “Mobile” and documents all* activities performed on my mobile phone duringthis year.
Activities can be seen online at mobile.johannes-p-osterhoff.com
The performance shall start on February XX, 2012 and shall end on February XX, 2013.
I shall not use other mobile phones during this year.
radar.oreilly.com/assets_c/2011/04/DC and NY.html
App Closing Screenshots from last weekend
App Closing Screenshots from today
Browser Tab Screenshots from today
Messages, notes and recent searches in SQLite and XML files
1. “Google”2. Related Work3. Context4. Follow Up5. Discussion
Layout in the first month
Search for the Bachelor thesis of my student Simon Schmidt
I handed in “Google” to the Flusser residency
Rise in page rank…
…but not for long :)
Prof. Dr. Rolf OSTERHOFF’s page is pretty search engine optimized
There is no book called “Luhmann for Dummies”
Search for Hendrik Efert, Journalist
The search for “transmediale 2012 google”
shows the result of the performance
(here on an iPhone)
Die Query und die Krise des Archivs
Merz Aka, on the first result page
Transprivacy, curated by Florian Kuhlmann
Ole Reißmann writes for SPiegel ONline
Hans-Martin Jung writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung
Hyperkult XX Workshop on UI Trivialization
Moritz Lischka also writes for SPiegel ONline
JODI performed at c-base
Jörg Breithut, Stuttgarter Zeitung
The search for the infamous tschk talks
in Berlin on page one of the mobile
Google results
Museum of American Art
Johannes P OsterhoffWeb johannes-p-osterhoff.comTwitter @masterhare
google.johannes-p-osterhoff.com#GoogleByJPO