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Travis Poffenberger's original exploration of the relationship between search engines, semiotics, and culture, online- and what it may do in the real world. Intaes is visually explained. Please download and share.
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Page 1: Intaes & Google Culture

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the ideal future.

Google can answer most questions, aswell as define subjective concepts withgrids of images, revealing popular perception of them. such image searchesfor “beauty” or “sad” are telling of society.

we don’t have prejudices against

different shapes. yet we do against

more complex forms, humans.

Culture

Defines

Answers

Influences

Results

Mainstream

our current mainstream culture. one of hyper-organization, quickness, immediategratification, one of immediate answers.

intaes =( internet+aesthetic )

tangible objects

subjective concepts

imagine the internet as a vast jungle.da-da

confusingsurrealdecon-struct-ionist

wtf

cat videos“that m

akesno sense”huh??lolz

Judgement w

e must

learn to

become

more

accepting

of people,

for search

for search

engine culture

to further

the human

race, not

send us

back.

memes

cats.PNG

.GIF

transparent blogs

logo-mash-ups

rad!!

“arabic”

random

random sym

bols

Microsoft Paint

ironic lo-ficomic sans

wingdings

warped textweird YouTube com

ments

intaes is the “internet aesthetic”a modern phenom

enon, subculture,that is a response to G

oogle. intaesincludes art and design that involves dolphins,houseplants, gradients and brow

swer window

s.intaes is the subcultural response to the purposeof google. it is colorful, som

etimes arbitrar

of google. it is colorful, sometimes arbitrary, lo-fi

and is meant to leave one confused. it is anti G

oogle.

inatesexam

ples

Pre-Judgementalthough Google has made information gatheringeasier, as well as pretty much everything else, thesearches are still affected by people’s prejudices. these prejudices are based on judgement, judgementis based on classification. hyper classification canlead to more judgement. drawing pre-mature conclusions lead to more judgement. drawing pre-mature conclusions about certain ethnicities, groups or ideas via Google isfast, and easy. = PROBLEM

Google

peop

le=p

eople

society

influence

want to talk about it? i sure do.

Google: Travis Poffenberger

[email protected]

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