automated beacon
Automated Beacon collects and presents real-time queries from various search engines, creating a poetic portrait of the collective, networked consciousness.
Automated Beacon is a project that collects and relays in real time, queries being made on various search engines. The beacon acts as a silent witness: a feedback loop providing a global snapshot of ourselves to ourselves in real-time.
At 00.00hrs on January 1st 2005 an automated beacon began broadcasting on the web at http://www.automatedbeacon.net
The beacon continuously relays selected live web searches as they are being made around the world, presenting them back in series and at regular intervals as a kind of concrete poetry.
The beacon has been instigated to act as a silent witness: a feedback loop providing a global snapshot of ourselves to ourselves in real-time, while occupying a kind of nostalgic now-ness.