"Stephen Wilson. 2004. Traces of culture: searchbots scour the web looking for visual information. In Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia (MULTIMEDIA '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 981-982. DOI=10.1145/1027527.1027760 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027527.1027760" Traces of Culture presents a series of real time interactive art events that use custom-crafted searchbots to investigate image search processes and the underlying compendium of visual information available on the World Wide Web.

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