[SEARCH] 2002, Mary Flanagan

[SEARCH] 2002

Nota Pessoal:

Encontrei este projecto e achei que se adequava à metodologia e lógica de pensamento da nova fase de projecto. Talvez não seja uma referência directa à temática do projecto “Pessoal-Colectivo Participação:O papel político e/ou ideológico dos novos media”, mas fica a “metáfora” para quem ache útil.

“software / network / computer

When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure… At that time it was also hoped that a clarification of humanity’s basic mysteries […] might be found. …
There are official searchers, inquisitors.
I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words.

Obviously, no one expects to discover anything.

–Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” (1)

[search] is programmed using the Lingo programming language. Users click on words in the live search feed as they find words in others’ searches which interest them. These words separate, and conduct their own searches on themselves. Users can drag two words together which interest them to produce associative searches.

At this point, who is the searcher? What is being searched?” (1)

(1)Mary Flanagan, Search, em http://www.maryflanagan.com/search