»Google Adwords Happenings«
Software
Date: 1995 - 2005
Location: North America , Central America and the Caribbean
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion
Medium: Electronic Media , Commercial Advertising , Literature
Artist: Christophe Bruno
Confronting Bodies: Christophe Bruno / Google
Date of Action: April 2002
Specific Location: http://www.iterature.com/adwords
Description of Artwork: In April 2002, Christophe Bruno launched a serie of large scale poetry happenings on the Internet using Google Adwords. 12000 persons saw his poems in 24 hours.
Description of Incident: After 24 hours, the happening was censored by Google. The censorship occured for economical reasons related to the global equilibrium of the market economy of words on Google