{"id":136,"date":"2009-08-06T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/google-will-eat-itself\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:35:37","slug":"google-will-eat-itself","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/google-will-eat-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Will Eat Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/UBS1.gif\" width=\"471\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself &#8211; but in the end &#8220;we&#8221; own it!<\/p>\n<p>By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model.<\/p>\n<p>After this process we hand over the common ownership of &#8220;our&#8221; Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) \/ public.&#8221;[1]<\/p>\n<p>According to the GWEI webiste, the project accrued over 800 shares of Google, with at total value of US $405,413.&nbsp; Since GWEI was growing in value at a slightly greater rate than Google itself, in<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t202.345.117 years, GWEI theoretically could fully own Google.<\/p>\n<p>The work is a collaboration between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubermorgen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UBERMORGEN<\/a> (Hans Bernhard, Lizvlx), Alessandro Ludovico, and Paolo Cirio.<\/p>\n<p>The GWEI site offers more details on the organizational structure, international exhibitions, and press coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lauftext\">[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/gwei.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Will Eat Itself website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7729,"template":"","artist":[159,161,162,160,158],"streams":[11],"keywords":[2293,2353,2354],"decade":[5544],"media":[5547,5548],"class_list":["post-136","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-alessandro-ludovico","artist-hans-bernhard","artist-lizvlx","artist-paolo-cirio","artist-ubermorgen","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","keywords-google","keywords-hack","keywords-ubermorgen","decade-2000s","media-image","media-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7736,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/136\/revisions\/7736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}