A little info on the project

I need computers to sing this song, FlashVideo, Lo-Fi, 2009

I've seen some ideas on blogs of funny Google suggestions, capturing absurd or awkward ideas, and I decided to explore this. My very first work on new media to be exhibited was 'GoogleArt', on LiveHerring'08, an annual new media art exhibition organized by the the Central Finland Council of the Arts. It was held on the Central Finland Museum of Contemporary Art. The words on the screen were showing big concepts written on the screen; each word would lead to Google's image results and curious things as cellular phone images for "soul" Jack Black for "love", and results changing on a daily basis. The work can be seen at the menu on the left, which will take you to the LiveHerring website. I have decided to work with that because I am a big collector of trivial images - photography, everyday life and even people on Facebook (I always save one or two pics to represent my friends; some of them find this strange, ironically they would not if I was the one who took the pictures in the first place). As I am also researching a lot on the computer for a lot of time a day, I have noticed the curious results from the Suggestions. After seeing a print screen on a blog, I decided to make something with video, but I would like to create a theme that addresses all of us. I thought of "I", or "WANT", or "YOU", but finally I decided for "I NEED". Sometimes music lyrics or movie names get a bit in the way, they're part of the zeitgeist but usually will drop off after a season or two; in the case of "I NEED", just some characters were 'spoiled', as "I need u", which displayed almost solely "I need u lyrics" - which is valid, since my aim is to interfere very little on the data, just choosing some focus of display, but not suppressing results. Sometimes, users might have noticed, the suggestions simply don't appear. They won't be shown all the times you type an entry, so with the letter "L" that happened one, two and three times, so I decided to skip that one for the sake of the machine's will. The machine has been a little underrated lately, and accused of many things, too: more of an articulator than an actor, here, I believe it(he/she?) points out poetically what's been collected in such a technical way; the precious information can be translated in this alarming state that we find ourselves in: we need, desperately, big suggestions. I hope you enjoy the work. SL Filho, Jyväskyla, 2009