Google search data sculpture

24 September 2007

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a plexiglass data sculpture which visualizes 100 years of forward (online) thought. the top 100 terms for the phrase "in the future" on Google News, Google Blog & Google Scholar were categorized using the Dewey Decimal system, sorted by year & mapped onto a grid. holes were drilled into sheets of plexiglass whose sizes correspond to their frequency. for example, "war" is the biggest hole in 1945.

[link: ucla.edu|thnkx Jack]

reminds me of search engine shape milling & sexual behavior totems & email erosion.

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I captured some short video of this piece from the opening show last spring.
video 1, 2

Aaron Siegel . 25 September 2007

This is an interesting updated version of a situationist sculpture
made of glass which I think was called "100 days of walking in Paris" or something like that.
does anyone know know if it can be found on the web? I had no luck.

nick l . 5 October 2007

Hi, I'm one of the artists who made this piece. Would you mind posting a link to our websites? The piece was a collaboration between Casey Alt and Christopher O'Leary, and we are students in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA.

Thanks!

caseyalt . 29 October 2007

bravo,
Please i need some ideas on clay and stones and marbles for sculpture.i will like to see their pictured tools just for ordering purposes.
thanks .

Ezekiel . 21 December 2007

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