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Google Images: an endless flat plane where the images of our civilization—high-budget professional glam shots, vacation snapshots, official portraits, porn, skin tumor pics, sweet-sixteen shots, scanned archives, pictures of weddings, pictures of war, doctored fakes, authentic straights, and millions of other image types—are all non-hierarchically organized as search outcomes.
Google, of course, taylors its algorithms according to market capital demands and therefore forms complicated hierarchies to maximize turning clicks into cash. However, Google does not in any way evaluate the merits or import of an image, no matter its authorship, provenance, authenticity, image clarity, or any other details of the image itself.
If you google search for images of a rabbit, you will receive a spread of images including a snapshot of a rabbit stealing a snack from a backyard vegetable garden, a blurry pic of rabbit roadkill on Highway 1, a freeze frame image from a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon, a photo of a nature morte oil painting from 1879 that features a dead hare in its composition, and on, and on, and on—all arranged in a flat grid.
All images used in the MMHTT project are pictures culled from Google Images and all are being used without permission. This includes all primary section images, wallpaper images, organ donor logos, and all images featured in each video, especially including talking zombies. Not a single frame of original photography was shot for this project, nor original drawings made. Every image was appropriated from something else as compiled by Google Images. The most elevated level of image intervention on our part is the frequent composite image made from multiple Google Images, but never supplemented with original elements (with the exception of course of various overlaid texts).
In this project, images that had been deterritorialized by Google Images, arranged in neverending grids on infinitely scrollable white search pages have now be reterritorialized by the deterritorialized MMHTT.
MMHTT is a home built on sand, but a home—warm and caring and purposeful—nonetheless. Images captured by Google have been given temporary safe harbor here, a nice meal and a clean bed. If anyone looking for a long lost image finds it hanging out in this space and would like to gather it back to its rightful home, just let us know and we will gladly discontinue use with no hard feelings.
To say MMHTT is a not-for-profit enterprise is to understate just how anti-capital this project is. No money changes hands relative to this project and therefore no money should be expected in exchange for copyright violation claims. —Authro Noté
Google, of course, taylors its algorithms according to market capital demands and therefore forms complicated hierarchies to maximize turning clicks into cash. However, Google does not in any way evaluate the merits or import of an image, no matter its authorship, provenance, authenticity, image clarity, or any other details of the image itself.
If you google search for images of a rabbit, you will receive a spread of images including a snapshot of a rabbit stealing a snack from a backyard vegetable garden, a blurry pic of rabbit roadkill on Highway 1, a freeze frame image from a classic Bugs Bunny cartoon, a photo of a nature morte oil painting from 1879 that features a dead hare in its composition, and on, and on, and on—all arranged in a flat grid.
All images used in the MMHTT project are pictures culled from Google Images and all are being used without permission. This includes all primary section images, wallpaper images, organ donor logos, and all images featured in each video, especially including talking zombies. Not a single frame of original photography was shot for this project, nor original drawings made. Every image was appropriated from something else as compiled by Google Images. The most elevated level of image intervention on our part is the frequent composite image made from multiple Google Images, but never supplemented with original elements (with the exception of course of various overlaid texts).
In this project, images that had been deterritorialized by Google Images, arranged in neverending grids on infinitely scrollable white search pages have now be reterritorialized by the deterritorialized MMHTT.
MMHTT is a home built on sand, but a home—warm and caring and purposeful—nonetheless. Images captured by Google have been given temporary safe harbor here, a nice meal and a clean bed. If anyone looking for a long lost image finds it hanging out in this space and would like to gather it back to its rightful home, just let us know and we will gladly discontinue use with no hard feelings.
To say MMHTT is a not-for-profit enterprise is to understate just how anti-capital this project is. No money changes hands relative to this project and therefore no money should be expected in exchange for copyright violation claims. —Authro Noté