From 1 January until 31 December 2011, Johannes P Osterhoff published all his search queries with the search engine Google in a One-year Performance piece called “Google”. With these slides the project was presented at the "Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0" panel during transmediale 2012 in Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

1. “Google”
Johannes P Osterhoff
@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin
“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0”
February 3, 2012

3. My searches from September 3, 2011…

4. …lead to the (first) Google result page…

5. …and from there to the page of my performance.
(Feel free to donate or flattr!)
fuereinebesserewelt.info/google-one-year-piece-osterhoff – Thanks!

6. The search for
“transmediale 2012 google”
shows the result of the
performance

7. I handed in “Google” to the Flusser residency

9. There is no book called “Luhmann for Dummies”

10. Search for Hendrik Efert, Journalist

13. The query and the crisis of the archive

14. Transprivacy, curated by Florian Kuhlmann

15. JODI performed at c-base

16. The search for the
infamous tschk! talks
in Berlin on page one
of the mobile Google
results

18. Demo #1
“Google”
One-Year Performance Piece
Jan 1, 2011 0:00:00 — Dec 31, 2011 23:59:59

19. Related Work
Tehching Hsieh

21. Photo: Cheng Wei Kuong. © 1979 Tehching Hsieh Cage Piece

23. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/TehchingHsiehExhibitMOMA.jpg

24. Time Clock Piece © Tehching Hsieh

25. Outside of any building for one year
© Tehching Hsieh

26. Rope Piece
© Tehching Hsieh

27. Today

28. My (from time to time updated) manifesto

29. Related Work
Submit Button

30. 2003

31. Submit Button, 2003–2006

32. Submit Button, Hyperkult XX, 2011

33. Submissive hierachies in
old and new media

34. Related Work
Freedom from Porn

39. 2010

42. Related Work
Google Juice

43. 2010

46. @ Tele Internet, Ars Electronica 2010

47. I and…

48. …other artists got addicted

49. Rise in “page rank”…

50. …when searching a lot :)

51. Related Work
Fakebook

52. 2010

53. 2010

54. Context
Post-Privacy

55. slidesha.re/qYU6Cc
Christian Heller
iX, February 2009

56. weissesroessl.at/en-spa-hotel-austria-sauna.htm
Jeff Jarvis
buzzmachine.com
WWGD
Private Parts

58. Wau Holland
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Wau_Holland.jpg
„Öffentliche Daten nützen, private Daten schützen.“ – Hackerethik

59. Context
Loss of CTRL

61. Owen Mundy: “Give me my Data”

62. “Europe vs.
Facebook”

63. Michael Seemann
aka msprO
ctrl-verlust.net

64. Context
Authorship of Users

65. 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

66. 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)

67. author or user?
Photo: A. Jaeckel, Berlin

68. One year of Google search = 8481 searches, @ Filmwinter Stuttgart 2012

71. Demo #2
“Google”
One-Week Performance Piece
during tm2k+12

77. Google
johannes-p-osterhoff.com
@masterhare
Johannes P Osterhoff
One-Year Piece
@ reSource, tm2k+12, Berlin google-performance.org
“Isolation and Empowerment after Web 2.0”
February 3, 2012 One-Week Piece
google.johannes-p-osterhoff.com
#GoogleTM