Host Not Found: A Traveling Monument to the Suppression of Search
Monument rendering – minimal installation
Monument rendering – interior / conference installation
Monument rendering – elaborate exterior installation
Proposal cover letter sent to Google Inc., to request project funding in a self critical gesture
Google Inc.’s response
2007
A collaborative project developed with Markus Miessen which created an unsolicited monument proposal for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) after an investigation about Internet governance and site blocking politics.
The proposed installation would contain variable configurations of LED screens which display (in real time) blocked or forbidden keywords, search terms and web sites from all over the world. The proposal package was sent to both the ITU and to Google Inc., Itu having ignored the proposal, and Google Inc. having sent a generic postcard response.
Biography
The contingency of normality is the focus of Reed’s artistic and textual practice. Normality can only be apprehended as a given reality through social consensus, and this consensus is inherently plastic, malleable. The play with the plasticity (potential) of the normal, both conceptually and materially, constitutes the foundation of her practice. Reed’s (often) obsessive works [...]