Deletion Process, Only you can see my search history
The work “Deletion process, Only you can see my history” is a note on the issues of the digital memory, the right to be forgotten and the digital privacy. The 10.650 terms which the artist has googled during the last eight years, have been detached from her personal online search history, stored locally and depicted as white squares on a webpage. An “erasure algorithm” enters periodically the local xml file, deletes one word randomly and turns the respective white square into a black one. At the same time the deleted word is printed on paper turning the digital archive into a analog one. In one year’s time all terms will have been deleted by the algorithm and the webpage will be completely black, with the printed paper being the only remnant of the personal search history. The deletion process is presented live on kyriakigoni.com/history, where the user becomes a voyeur by browsing the web search history before this have been completely deleted.
Credits
additional programming: S. Nikoloutsopoulos, T. Papatheodorou
