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.

1. “Google”
Johannes P Osterhoff
@ Museum of American Art, Berlin
October 16, 2011

2. 1. “Google”
2. Related Work
3. Context
4. Follow Up
5. Discussion

4. My searches from September 3, 2011…

5. …lead to the Google result page…

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

7. 1. “Google”
2. Related Work
3. Context
4. Follow Up
5. Discussion

8. Related Work
Tehching Hsieh

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

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

13. Time Clock Piece © Tehching Hsieh

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

15. Rope Piece
© Tehching Hsieh

16. Today

17. “1 year performance video” continues MTAA’s series
of 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.

19. My (from time to time updated) manifesto

20. Related Work
Submit Button

21. 2003

22. Submit Button, 2003–2006

23. Submit Button, Hyperkult XX, 2011

26. Related Work
Freedom from Porn

27. 2010

28. Related Work
Google Juice

29. 2010

32. TELE INTERNET, Ars Electronica 2010

35. Related Work
Fakebook

36. 2010

37. 2010

38. Evan Roth – Bad Ass Mother Fucker

39. 1. “Google”
2. Related Work
3. Context
4. Follow Up
5. Discussion

40. Context
Loss of CTRL

42. Owen Mundy: “Give me my Data”

43. “Europe vs.
Facebook”

44. msprO
ctrl-verlust.net

45. Context
Public Space (Online)

47. Context
Authorship of Users

48. 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

49. 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)

50. author or user?

51. Photo: A. Jaeckel, Berlin

54. using
vs.
being used

55. Joachim Stein – joaoflux.net

56. “Google lets us graze
in order to milk us.”
– joaoflux

57. Context
Post-Privacy

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

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

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

63. Context
Transprivacy

64. transprivacy.com
Transprivacy (curated by Florian Kuhlmann)
Stefan Riebel – In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.)
Filippo Minelli – In your Ass

65. Stefan Riebel – In silent memory of a time before Google (B.G.) Transprivacy

66. 250 x
in Düsseldorf ’s
public space
Next week – “Google” (Simulation)

67. 1. “Google”
2. Related Work
3. Context
4. Follow Up
5. Discussion

68. 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 during
this 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.

70. radar.oreilly.com/assets_c/2011/04/DC and NY.html

71. App Closing Screenshots from last weekend

72. App Closing Screenshots from today

73. Browser Tab Screenshots from today

74. Messages, notes and recent searches in SQLite and XML files

75. 1. “Google”
2. Related Work
3. Context
4. Follow Up
5. Discussion

76. Layout in the first month

77. Search for the Bachelor thesis of my student Simon Schmidt

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

81. Rise in page rank…

82. …but not for long :)

84. Prof. Dr. Rolf OSTERHOFF’s page is pretty search engine optimized

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

86. Search for Hendrik Efert, Journalist

89. The search for
“transmediale 2012 google”
shows the result of the
performance
(here on an iPhone)

91. Die Query und die Krise des Archivs

92. Merz Aka, on the first result page

93. Transprivacy, curated by Florian Kuhlmann

94. Ole Reißmann writes for SPiegel ONline

95. Hans-Martin Jung writes for Süddeutsche Zeitung

97. Hyperkult XX Workshop on UI Trivialization

98. Moritz Lischka also writes for SPiegel ONline

99. JODI performed at c-base

102. Jörg Breithut, Stuttgarter Zeitung

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

109. Museum of American Art

110. Johannes P Osterhoff
Web johannes-p-osterhoff.com google.johannes-p-osterhoff.com
Twitter @masterhare #GoogleByJPO