Human Browser

Human Browser

Year: 
2004–2016
Edition: 
2017

A human being embodies the World Wide Web: Human Browser is a series of Wi-Fi performances based on a Google hack, where the usual technological interface is replaced with the oldest interface we know: the human being. Thanks to its headset, an actor hears a text-to-speech audio that comes directly from the Internet in real-time. The actor repeats the text as he hears it. The textual flow is actually fetched by a programme that hijacks Google, diverting it from its utilitarian functions. Depending on the context in which the actor is, keywords are sent to the programme and used as search strings in Google so that the content of the textual flow is always related to the context. http://www.iterature.com/human-browser

 

 

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