About a year ago Doron Golan said to me, "gh why don't you do a piece of net.art for the computer fine arts database." I though about it for a while and came up with Vanity Search; http:// www.computerfinearts.com/collection/hovagimyan/vanitysearch/
Vanity Search creates an instant web collage using search engines doing a vanity search on the name G.H. Hovagimyan. One might call this Neo-Fluxus information art. The interesting part is that the piece changes as more information is added to the web. This is a very fragile piece. It depends on all the search engines now in existence to continue to function. In the world of corporate communications cut-throat competition this is highly unlikely. This piece deals with information entropy. I liken this to Robert Smithson's famous musings, in his 1968 essay, "A Sedimentation of the Mind." How many search engines will be in existence in 10 years? Will the web become censored like in China or "privatized" and made the domain of commercial culture only? The fluidity of information has an ebb and flow like a tide washing away a shoreline.
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About a year ago Doron Golan said to me, "gh why don't you do a piece
of net.art for the computer fine arts database." I though about it
for a while and came up with Vanity Search; http://
www.computerfinearts.com/collection/hovagimyan/vanitysearch/
Vanity Search creates an instant web collage using search engines
doing a vanity search on the name G.H. Hovagimyan.
One might call this Neo-Fluxus information art. The interesting part
is that the piece changes as more information is added to the web.
This is a very fragile piece. It depends on all the search engines
now in existence to continue to function. In the world of corporate
communications cut-throat competition this is highly unlikely. This
piece deals with information entropy.
I liken this to Robert Smithson's famous musings, in his 1968 essay,
"A Sedimentation of the Mind."
How many search engines will be in existence in 10 years? Will the
web become censored like in China or "privatized" and made the domain
of commercial culture only? The fluidity of information has an ebb
and flow like a tide washing away a shoreline.
G.H. Hovagimyan
http://nujus.net/gh/
http://post.thing.net/gh/