Last but not least: Shuffle once please

Shaken and stirred—that’s how the Internet comes across when you let it whirl through the “Shuffle,” a feature devised by the Erlenbach-based agency Eclat in collaboration with media artist Marc Lee.

 Shaken and stirred - that's how the Internet appears when you let it swirl through the shuffle that the Erlenbach-based agency Eclat has devised in collaboration with media artist Marc Lee. The Flash-based program sucks information from the Internet for any keyword and reassembles the images, news, texts, videos and sounds like a kaleidoscope. And that's not all: The search engine, which is an adaptation of Lee's "Breaking the News" project, can be set to be more factual or entertaining as required. The fact that Eclat does a bit of advertising for its own customers en passant is a welcome bonus - five companies from the portfolio have already gone through the shuffle. A test run with your own name is always worthwhile. The only problem is that some of the images of your own likeness slumbering in the vastness of the Internet are no longer something you want to see shuffled and in media art...

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