For more than two decades, Google Search has shaped how people navigate the web and how knowledge is found online. But things are changing. The uptake of generative AI is transforming search from a tool that points to information, into a system that increasingly offers synthesized answers, produced on the fly.
The workshop investigates search at this moment of transition by using re-search.site to aesthetically compare participants’ search results from diverse browsers and search engines through data visualisations. It also explores what it means to (re)search in a world where answers are written for us, with a ‘chatbot rodeo’ consisting of a range of LLMs.
The workshop invites participants to think about search not only as a technical system but incites critical discussions about hyperlinked ‘classic search’ and the ‘future of search,’ whilst advancing search literacy in an open and caring environment.
Bring your laptops, keywords (research interests) and prompts!
The project and workshops are facilitated by researcher/artist Renée Ridgway and artist/programmer Anders Visti.
Gallery/Media
Upcoming
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November 5th, 2026 XV International Bauhaus Colloquium: Politics of Research. @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Presentation: "The politics of (re)search: a bespoke platform for capturing, comparing and critiquing knowledge infrastructures of searching". 14:00–16:00, Main Building, room 018 (session: Experimental Setups — Invisibilities, Images and Imaginaries). -
November 7th, 2026 XV International Bauhaus Colloquium: Politics of Research. @ Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
Workshop: "Re-search.site: The Pasts and Futures of Search". 10:00–13:00, University Library, meeting room (Track IV: Epistemologies). Facilitated by Renée Ridgway and Anders Visti — comparing and critiquing search results through data visualisations and a 'chatbot rodeo' of LLMs. Bring your laptops, keywords (research interests) and prompts!!!!
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January 21st, 2026 Code&Share[61]: The Online Search Rodeo. @ KLUB, Linnésgade 25, 1361 København K, Denmark
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May 25th, 2025 ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic/Emerging Art), Seoul, South Korea.
Workshop: "The Art of (Re)search — Comparing, Contemplating and critiquing search results". Sogang University - May 13th, 2025Workshop. Aesthetic Programming, Aarhus University.
- May 9th, 2025Presentation. CuPra, Cultures and Practices of Digital Technologies, Aarhus University.
- November 30th, 2024 Workshop: "Re:search - Comparing, critiquing and contemplating search results". DOKK1 public library, Aarhus.
- April 24th, 2024 Workshop: "Re:search - Data visualizations as transcription". Digital Design, Aarhus University.
- September 30th, 2023 Workshop: "Re:search — Data visualizations as transcription". Processing Community Day @Aarhus 2023. New Aarch, architecture school of Aarhus. https://pcdaarhus.net/
- June 17th, 2023 Workshop: "Re:search: The Personalised Subject vs. the Anonymous User". Code&Share[43]. https://codeandshare.net/