NoSearchBar

Erik Anton Reinhardt (DE)

A distinction can be made between specific and non-specific software-related data access: The specific search hardly has any surprises in store, due to its purpose of existence. We find what we are looking for, the problems, preferences, and needs are specifically individual, predominantly environmental, and self-driven. However, the amount of data gathered by websites appears to be too large. A trivial or complex speculative form of sorting, categorization, and curation is required—the unspecific access. Examples of this are forecast systems, sorting, categories, and recommendation systems, which try to anticipate users’ problems, preferences, and needs but often also to create new ones. By removing the SearchBar, we are exposed to an ideological software anticipation. We no longer have the opportunity to articulate our own problems, preferences, and needs but are always left with mixed feelings between frustration and hope that the right thing could still emerge.  

A distinction can be made between specific and non-specific software-related data access: The specific search hardly has any surprises in store, due to its purpose of existence. We find what we are looking for, the problems, preferences, and needs are specifically individual, predominantly environmental, and self-driven. However, the amount of data gathered by websites appears to be too large. A trivial or complex speculative form of sorting, categorization, and curation is required—the unspecific access. Examples of this are forecast systems, sorting, categories, and recommendation systems, which try to anticipate users’ problems, preferences, and needs but often also to create new ones. By removing the SearchBar, we are exposed to an ideological software anticipation. We no longer have the opportunity to articulate our own problems, preferences, and needs but are always left with mixed feelings between frustration and hope that the right thing could still emerge.  

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Finn Jakob Reinhardt, New Media Class (UdK Berlin) 

Erik Anton Reinhardt (DE) is a Berlin-based designer with conceptual media art practice. He is currently studying Visual Communication at Berlin University of the Arts with a focus on New Media and intervenes behind the shiny surfaces of our digital society. He is mainly concerned with cultures and ideologies embedded in techno-social systems.  

Erik Anton Reinhardt (DE) is a Berlin-based designer with conceptual media art practice. He is currently studying Visual Communication at Berlin University of the Arts with a focus on New Media and intervenes behind the shiny surfaces of our digital society. He is mainly concerned with cultures and ideologies embedded in techno-social systems.