word>image>film

"One Word Movie is an extraordinary online project by Swiss artist Beat Brogle and Philippe Zimmermann, which organises the flood of images on the Internet into a flickering film - based on a word provided by the user. A specially programmed search engine, built on top of popular image search facilities available on the Internet, forms the basis for this fascinating exploration of Internet imaginary."

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i really like this concept. i especially like the way the narrative works its way along a trajectory, consisting of a few images at a time, instead of cycling through every image from start to finish. you can also change how many frames are repeated and at what rate they're received. brilliant.

of course, art like this simply wouldn't exist without the database, arguably one of the most ubiquitous and influential developments in recent history. "Database Imaginary, a new exhibition...provides a range of works that envisions our relationship with the technological systems we have created to store and access information. The thirty-three works in 'Database Imaginary' are, not surprisingly, heavily influenced by the development of computers for compiling and analyzing data, including early works like Hans Haacke's 'Visitors' Profile' of 1971. But there is also a strong sense of material and spatial engagement in this collection. Through the exhibit's presentation of works that actively confront the countless points of contact between data and life, one can almost feel the pressure of metadata as it is tagged to our every experience."

the collection includes a great many classics, such as Data Diaries, as well as the occasional 2004 newbie. it's great.





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