Human Browser

Human Browser

Production country: 
fr
Year: 
2004
Edition: 
2006
Format: 
installation

"Human Browser" is a series of wireless Internet performances based on a Wi-Fi Google hack. A human being embodies the World Wide Web, the largest collection of texts belonging to mankind. Thanks to his headset, the actor hears a text-to-speech audio that comes directly and in real-time from the Internet. The actor repeats the text as he hears it. The textual flow is actually retrieved by a programme that hijacks Google, diverting it from its utilitarian functions. Depending on the context in which the actor finds himself, keywords are sent to the programme and used as search terms in Google so that the content of the textual flow is always related to the context. Human Browser shows man in a competitive battle between his own intelligence and the functional strength of the Internet as a knowledge-pool.

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