Non-Art Good Art
Thursday, January 25, 2007
So often non-art makes the best art. This is one of them... a little obscure and random, a very cool concept and, dare I say, very relational. Here's the lowdown: " Is it possible to locate a man, given only his photograph and first name?A UK games company is testing the power of the Internet by asking that very question; they have recruited one of Earth's 6 billion residents - a man named Satoshi - to participate in this experiment.
We are each only five to seven people away from any target in the world. Someone, somewhere, knows Satoshi - so we must track these people, and thus Satoshi, down using word-of-mouth communication. People from over 80 countries are already participating in the hunt, with more joining every day."
http://www.findsatoshi.com/
posted by Robert Sloon at 7:05 PM
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For Satoshi to evade recognition he could be living in isolation, or he could be in the midst of a population which is itself invisible to the poke of the internet, or perhaps he could be surrounded by a host who define themselves somehow outside or indifferent or in opposition to the world of the game & UK Game Inc. – these folk know Satoshi, but would never give him up. They aint snitching and they aint snitches.
On the other hand Satoshi himself could be a construct, a little bit of PhotoShop, a cunning mix of costume & setting, conceptualised in a think tank, a brainstorm or mindbreeze, squeezed forth between market survey and high lunch.
He might be me, or you, my friend - but we're not tellin’...
The US army can’t find certain leaders of the Taliban, ‘though the media claim they are living in densely populated areas of Pakistan.
Perhaps, Satoshi wakes up at a certain dawn and realises that he doesn’t want to be found, he becomes a fugitive from those that desire to expose him.
The Smiley Bomber indeed.
OFFER DECLINED STOP SATOSHI EQUALS SATORI ENDS
The Man From Pinkerton's is my vote for art work of the week. Seriously.
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