_NAME_ 
Lance Wakeling 

_TITLE_ 
IMAGE RESEARCH*

_STATEMENT_ 
Without crawlers roaming the internet and archiving links, images, and keywords, 
no one would have any idea how to find anything online. Search engines rely on 
crawlers to traverse links and chart the internet; spammers need them to harvest 
email addresses. My crawler makes 'slideshows' from images that people post on 
their web pages, the images of the sites they link to, and the images of the sites 
linked to from there, and so on, and on. My crawler is a simple creature--it 
follows links and displays images. IMAGE RESEARCH is art made for the gallery 
attendent. Or, art to live with. It's like non-linear TV with the sound off. 
A lot of the images that are displayed for IMAGE RESEARCH are navigation widgets. 
As we move through larger landscapes of information with increasing speed, the 
apparatus for navigation becomes more and more the dominant component of our 
experience. Eventually, the experience of moving through data becomes more about 
interacting with the navigational apparatus and less about the environment being 
traversed--like the difference between riding a bicycle and piloting a jet.**

_BIO_ 
* Born 1980 in Tacoma, Washington 
* Lives & works in Brooklyn, New York 
* Topics of interest may include but are not limited to: social networks, books, 
capitalism, the outsides of liquor stores, typography, shallowness, graphs & 
information design, programming, linguistic drift, walking, obfuscation, 
surveillance, transportation systems, obsessive behavior, sarcasm, pornography, 
advertising, major corporations, recursive acronyms, fluxus, statistics, dada, the 
idea of databases, Thomas Kinkade, KP REPRESENT!, lists, and not reading James 
Joyce.

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*see Associative Slideshow [static]
**see ARROWS


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*        INSTRUCTIONS FOR STARTING `IMAGE RESEARCH'       * 
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Turn on the Xbox.
 
Turn on the IBM. 

On the IBM hold down 'Ctrl' and 'Alt' and press 'F1'. 

Log in to the IBM. 
user:  canary 
pswd:  modulate 

The screen should have some info about GNU/Linux. 
And will look like this: 
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* canary@debian:~$                                        * 
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Type (without the quotes) "screwdriver". 

There will be a login screen like this: 
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*  Welcome to the : Xebian                                * 
*  Version : 1.1.4-xbox                                   * 
*  Author : Edgar Hucek (hostmaster@ed-soft.at)           * 
*  Hostname : xebian.xbox.local                           * 
*  Linux Ver. : 2.4.31-xbox                               * 
*                                                         * 
*  Password:                                              * 
*                                                         * 
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At the Password prompt type (Note: You won't see the keys on screen. Oh, 
and don't type quotes.): "modulate". 

The screen will look something like this: 
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* Last login: Mon Mar 12 02:59:43 2007 from 192.168.1.100 * 
* live@xebian:~$                                          * 
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Type (again without quotes) "solenoid". 

That's it! The screen will go blank and you will see the projection show a 
white screen image that says "IMAGE RESEARCH" and a running list of URLs on 
the monitor.


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*       INSTRUCTIONS FOR STOPPING `IMAGE RESEARCH'        * 
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TO QUIT THE SLIDESHOW COMPLETELY: 

On the IBM hold down "Cntl" and press "c". 
Type "exit". 
Then type "logout". 

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TO SHUT DOWN THE COMPUTERS COMPLETELY: 

After you have exited the slideshow and logged out (previous steps), 
On the IBM type: "sudo shutdown -h now". 

To shut down the Xbox simply double-click the "shutdown" icon on the 
desktop. 

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TO QUIT THE CURRENT SLIDESHOW AND RESTART IT: 

On the IBM hold down 'Cntl' and press 'c'. 
Type "Solenoid".