Zeitgeist
2005-12-27 to 2006-01-02
de Ken Lovell
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Acerca del libro
In December of 2006, while Google was still posting its weekly listing of search terms, I started a project to create an image library associated with each item on the weekly Google Zeitgeist list. At the end of each week, they posted a new list of search terms, showing the most significant percentage increase in frequency for the preceding week. I used that list as a starting point for a Google image search on each topic. Using software that allowed me to cull every image associated with a particular search topic, I collected hundreds, sometimes thousands, of images related to each of the top 15 search terms for the previous week.
Zeitgeist is a German word that means "spirit of the times." I wanted to capture an idea in these images as they flickered across the public consciousness. Google's Zeitgeist revealed the views, people, and events that momentarily distracted us; sports heroes and actors, births and deaths, and public and private concerns, expressed directly or indirectly through the images that illustrate the internet. By collecting pictures related to zeitgeist keyword searches, I hoped to create a pictorial cloud, a visual fog, that resists functioning as a succinct definition of its subject, as it loops around a verbal meaning and is affected by personal interpretation.
KOL - January 2012
Características y detalles
- Categoría principal: Libros de arte y fotografía
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Características: Vertical estándar, 20×25 cm
N.º de páginas: 40 - Fecha de publicación: ene. 18, 2012
- Idioma English
- Palabras clave fine art, collage, google, art
Acerca del creador
Ken Lovell received his BFA in printmaking from Indiana University in 1986 and his MFA from Yale University in Painting in 1992. Despite getting a taste of programming in the early nineteen-eighties (Fortran and punch cards) he became fascinated with the possibilities that computers presented to art-making. A job repairing computers combined with experience making and teaching Art, led to his being hired as theTechnical Director of the Yale University Digital Media Center for the Arts. Since 1998 he has taught students, staff and faculty how to move images into and out of the computer and how to manipulate the data on the digital journey between those two analog states. His time is gladly apportioned between his family, friends, job and studio.