Google It

Research & Development

Outcome here: PurCulture.com/googleit

This picture is one of several promotional photos that were taken to honour and promote Jonathan Pratt and my recently established cooperative relationship.

In reference to our original artwork of the same name, Jonathan and I play the roles of Ctrl-C (Copy) and Ctrl-V (Paste) in The Bandwidth Programme. The goal of the collaboratively generated work is to experiment, extort, and disrupt digital objects, data, and modernity. With equally serious and amusing presentations, each piece explores the symbiotic link between people and computational computers from both a celebratory and critical point of view.

The output, which to date includes photography, meta-exhibitions, poetry, sculpture, performance, and simply conceptual or nonphysical works, is not limited to any one medium.

Among other things, this promotional image is meant to be used in a self-titled retrospective exhibition that honours and highlights our accomplishments throughout the first year as partners at an as-yet-unconfirmed date.

Google It

Jonathan became dissatisfied with his experiences showing new media art in a conventional gallery setting since he discovered that most people will only give a time-based piece a brief glance when it is on display and that my work frequently does not fit in there. From then, he wanted to design an exhibition that further questioned this, making it challenging or inhospitable to view works in all media while also heavily utilising new technology. The goal was to create a physical show that took place in the actual world but was only accessible virtually, separating the audience from the artwork while yet providing a virtual tour of the gallery.

After that, it was agreed that we would create an exhibition called Google It that would only be accessible via Google Maps. This would serve as both a title and a guide for anyone who saw our ads.

My family's cattle barn, which served as the exhibition's site, was a really fortunate and simple choice because it satisfied our need for an isolated setting. A Google Maps screenshot of the barn's location was used to construct the open call poster on the left.

The show's anti-gallery vibe was further enhanced by the fact that it was held in an operational cattle shed, which put the immaculate piece "among the shit," the furthest thing from a white cube. As many pointed out, this also resulted in the unintended joke that everything was "bullshit." It is the outright denial of a gallery with a white wall!