Re|Traces of search: Exploring human-software entanglements through the search engine
2020 (English)In: DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2020, p. 457-460Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The software art installation 're|Traces of Search' probes human-software relationships by examining in detail a specific and situated action: searching on the web. This work exposes the inner workings of this human/non-human connection; the software - the keystrokes, the scripts and function calls occurring during the exchange - are revealed as a tangible artifact and interactive sonification. We invite guests to explore this non-human representation and touch the software, as it touches us back. As well as highlighting a hidden complexity, this work touches upon questions of transparency and privacy of search engines, and to what extent our relationship with software is rooted in control, in contrast to care.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2020. p. 457-460
Keywords [en]
New media art, Search engine, Software art, Sonification, Arts computing, Function calls, In-control, Interactive sonification, Situated actions, Search engines
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-301093DOI: 10.1145/3393914.3395839ISI: 000747587200087Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85090147971OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-301093DiVA, id: diva2:1591457
Conference
2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, 6 July 2020 through 10 July 2020
Note
QC 20210906
2021-09-062021-09-062023-04-05Bibliographically approved