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"We Report - You Decide." «Loogie.net News» is a personalized real-time online news magazine. It presents the results of individual queries as if they were ongoing and up-to-date news messages.
With Loogie.net an article can be arranged to your own discretion and you can infiltrate it with your own input. Thus words can be replaced in articles: Whether you let the pope beatify your favorite pop star instead of mother Theresa or you offering yourself to work as a negotiator for Palestine, it is open to you. The text will not only be read out and sent away - it will also remain stored and be indexed by Google e.g. and in such a way it will misinform and confuse other users.
«Loogie.net News» is highly unusual in that it offers news messages compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention.
Annette Schindler:
«Loogie.net News» is a personalized real-time online news magazine: the user chooses a keyword and within seconds receives a tailor-made cutting-edge News program. In a hip, but reliable design, using the proven interaction structures of well-known news agencies, the news articles arrange themselves by headlines, leads and contents, audiovisual material, and links to related news.
«Loogie.net News» uses common search engines to search for texts, pictures and videos related to the desired subject. The results are saved in a database, analyzed by a text classification system and then ranked according to meaningfulness. The program establishes terms related to the subject and only the data marked as relevant by a computer algorithm will be used and automatically put together to form a news Page. Thus the Loogie.net news will not be produced by people, but by computer generated reporters or respectively by intelligent software. They are, therefore, not subject to screening by party-opinion or special interests, but instead to the selection of the machine, feeding on the more democratic but also arbitrary information pool of the Internet. Since the artist delegates the power of choice back to the machine, he throws an ambivalent as well as critical glance at the unabated apparent belief in the technology of our society.
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Selectet Press
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Work in progress,
first version 2004
Realized: Marc Lee
Exhibited:
See on the Loogie.net page
Laurels:
- Switch-Award 2004 Nomination.
Articles:
- Annette Schindler
- Annina Zimmermann
-More Articles
Projectpage:
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