Collect the WWWorld

The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age (This blog won't be updated anymore. If you want to keep following my visual research, please check out intheuncannyvalley.tumblr.com)

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Ed Atkins, Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, 2013. Video, excerpt

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Matthieu Delourme, HundredSportPictures, 2012.

Gif serie composed with images found on internet

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Lorna Mills, Ways of Something: Episode 1, 2014

A collective remake of Ways of Seeing, BBC's seminal documentary series conceived by John Berger. Featuring work by 30 artists. More info here

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Francesco Amorosino, The Rome Guide For Terrorists, 2013. Photographic and book project

A series of photos of places in Rome that you are not allowed to enter and to take pictures of, but that are widely documented by services such as Google Street View and Google Maps

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Carloalberto Treccani, Giovanni Fredi, Giorgio Mininno, Bovezzo Mano Armata, 2014. Installation and editorial project with pictures of kids with weapons culled from the internet. All photos except the installation courtesy Bruno

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Siebren Versteeg, Something For Everyone, 2007.Triptych of 3 48″ x 96″ inkjet prints mounted to Dibond

"An algorithmically generated composition comprised of approximately 400,000 unique images indiscriminately culled from the internet and pasted into a perspectival field. Soaring overhead, a stealth bomber serves as a reminder of the onion skinning properties of hierarchical reasoning."

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Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia, brbxoxo, 2013. Website

brbxoxo searches online sexcam sites and only broadcasts feeds when the performers are absent.

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Filippo Minelli: Chemotherapy Update

March 15, 2014

More info

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Caroline Delieutraz, Jaws.gif, 2012. Animated GIF, found images

"To show his tooth jewelry to his friends via his blog requires to open big the mouth. In this .Gif, the images of mouth equipped with this jewel follow one another, the strass always staying in the same place."

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Journal of Visual Culture 12(3): The Archives Issue (2013)

With contributions from Shezad Dawood, Oliver Grau, Gary Hall, Chris Horrocks, Tom Holert, Juliette Kristenesen, susan pui san lok, Sas Mays, Joanne Morra, Nooney, Uriel Orlow, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Vivian Rehberg, Marquard Smith, and Nina Lager Vestberg.

Edited by Juliette Kristensen and Marquard Smith

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Marco Cadioli: Necessary Lines

Link Point, Brescia, January 18, 2014. Photo Marco Cadioli

More info

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Nicolas Maigret, The Pirate Cinema, 2012 - 2013. Installation and performance. More info & video documentation

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Andrea Buran, Eleonora Sovrani, Magic Cookie, 2013. Installation

A great take on the filter bubble

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sakrowski / curatingyoutube.net, Desktop Screenshots Collection 1997–today. A screen saver exhibition at metazoa.org. More in the curatorial text

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Jeff Thomson, Computers on Law & Order, 2013

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Philipp Schaerer, DIARY 18.05.2010 - 16.02.2012. Records: 125 x 200 (25'000, 2012. More info

"I have been collecting images, photographs, graphics, plans, schemata, text and layout documents in digital form since 1998 and have used since 2004 a media database to record them. Every document that I deem important or interesting is collected by means of the software. The data is tagged according to criteria I find coherent as well as intuitive, imported into the database and then labelled with key words. Over the years, I have accumulated over 75,000 data entries (as of 02/2012). All this data does not take up any room. Using search masks I am able to quickly and easily navigate this universe and I find what I am looking for. However, all I can see on the computer are merely subsets taken out of context, clearly separated, only parts of a whole. The sense of quantity is lost and this raises questions as to the quality of sensual perception in the face of the constantly growing amount of information. An attempt at a possible solution: The work "datadiary" proposes a different approach to the collected data in that it seeks, by means of the optical senses, to experience the whole of the data volume as a picture. All of the data sets, visible as thumbnails, are displayed on the interface and spread out as pictures. The data records, reminiscent of sediments, follow the logic and conventions of the ordinary diary. The data sets, on their respective lines, are presented chronologically according to the import date. So far, three pictures with 25,000 data sets each (125 columns of 200 lines) have been created, using the media database software Canto Cumulus."

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HASAN ELAHI, Tracking Transience: Security & Comfort, 2012. c-print in 7 sections, 60 x 210 inches