the search

[stephan_e_perez]

Archive of my recent performance

Some technical notes for you:

-The space viewport used in the performance was a website run locally.
-It uses the Google Programmable Search Engine API to get the words.*
-The 3D is done in ThreeJs.
-The website audio (the console beep-boops and the low ship-hum) is also done in JS using the native Audio API

[TheFrugalGamer]

Very cool! That is an interesting subject for study, and something I tried to do similarly for the Fuck Capitalism Jam over at Itch.io. Instead, I was trying to showcase, or spur thinking about, systems that weren't capitalism, but I ended up abandoning the idea because I couldn't get the mechanics to work in an engaging way. I'd like to revisit it sometime in the future if I can do a better job of getting what was in my head out onto a page.

If you ever upload the webpage you were showcasing there, I'd love to see it.

[stephan_e_perez]

Very cool! That is an interesting subject for study, and something I tried to do similarly for the Fuck Capitalism Jam over at Itch.io. Instead, I was trying to showcase, or spur thinking about, systems that weren't capitalism, but I ended up abandoning the idea because I couldn't get the mechanics to work in an engaging way. I'd like to revisit it sometime in the future if I can do a better job of getting what was in my head out onto a page.

If you ever upload the webpage you were showcasing there, I'd love to see it.

Hey, thanks for your reply.

You know, I'm thinking of doing a sequel to this performance sometime and capitalism is one of the subjects I've considered...

The website would need a bit more polish before I upload it... ...as is, it's mostly just useful for someone who knows how to use it (and there were some bugs in the live performance, as the video shows). I do have another web artwork that uses speech2text and a search API: show me the world, though that one has a much more playful aesthetic. I'm also wondering how to make use of search engines in internet art going forward - I previously used the Bing API for show me the world, but when that was discontinued earlier this year I had to switch it to Google PSE for that as well. And of course, Google will start charging me as soon as any of the sites reaches a degree of popularity... but still, all of that might be preferable to trying to build a search engine myself...  but yeah, I'll let you know if I do.