
GOOGLEGRAM: SEPTEMBER 11, 2005, c-print, 95 x 160 cm . September 11 plane crash snapshots. The photographs have been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google’s Image Search function. The final, result is a composite of 8,000 images available on the Internet that responded to the words: “God,” “Yahve” and “Allah,” in Spanish, French,” and English as search criteria.
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GOOGLEGRAM: SEPTEMBER 11, 2005, detail
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GOOGLEGRAM: ABU GHRAIB, 2005, c-print, 120 x 160 cm l Private Lynndie England humiliating a prisoner in the Abu Ghraib detention center in Baghdad. The photograph has been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google’s Image search function. The names of individuals and positions mentioned in the Final Report of the Independent Panel to Review DoD Detention Operation (also know as the Schlesinger Panel) regarding
Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse were fed into Google as search criteria. The final result is a composite of 10,000 images available on the Internet that responded to those criteria. Search words: Enlisted soldiers: Sergeant Joseph Darby, Sergeant Javal, Private First Class Lynndie England, Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick, Specialist Charles Graner, Specialist Sabrina Harman, Jeremy Sivits; Defense Department officials and military officers: Deputy Undersecretary of Intelligence Stephen Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Major General Barbara Fast, Major General Geoffrey Miller, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Colonel Thomas Pappas, Lieutenant General William Boykin; Civilian contractors: Steven Stephanowicz, Joe Ryan; Top officials:
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales.
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GOOGLEGRAM: THE WALL, 2006, c-print, 160 x 120 cm l Separation wall in Palestinian West Bank. The photograph has been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google’s Image search function. The final result is a composite of 10,000 images available on the Internet that responded to the names of all Nazi concentration camps during World War II as search criteria. The list includes: Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Barduffos, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Bolzano, Bredtvet, Breendonk, Breitenau, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Falstad, Flossenbürg, Grini, Gross-Rosen, Herzogenbusch, Hinzert, Jasenovac, Kaufering/Landsberg, Kauen, Klooga, Langenstein Zwieberge, Le Vernet, Lwów, Janowska, Majdanek, Malchow,Maly Trostenets, Mauthausen-Gusen, Mittelbau-Dora, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Niederhagen, Oranienburg, Osthofen, Plaszów, Ravensbrück, Riga-Kaiserwald, Risiera di San Sabba, Sachsenhausen, Sobibór, Soldau, Stutthof, Lager Sylt, Theresienstadt, Treblinka, Vaivara, Warsaw und Wasterbork.
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