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WEB SITE / INSTALLATION
MEMORY-PICTURES
INTERNET
FEST 2005, GREAT HALL, FRENCH MINISTRY OF CULTURE, PARIS
MARCH – MAY 2005
WORK
COMMISSIONED BY THE NATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL INSTITUTE (INA) OF
FRANCE
In
this web-based work, which was also the basis for an installation
at the Ministry of Culture in Paris, the artist sublimates
the image search function of Google so as to allow Internet
users to create their own works of art in the form of montages
of images culled at random from the depths of the “memory
bank of all memory” based on key words they choose and
define. Produced jointly with the artist (the primary author
of the web site), a digital avatar (the individual’s
“guide” through the labyrinth of the web), and
scores of anonymous and unwitting assistants (the people who
originally posted the images that found their way into individual’s
collage), these collages constituted “collaborative”
works of art, which the artist invited his “collaborators”
to send to him via surface mail to be “authenticated”
as the bona fide co-creations of a recognized “master”
the old-fashioned way—i.e., by signing his name to them
… free of charge!
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