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Googlevich Firefox Add-on

Experience the censored Malevich internet at home!

The Firefox add-on Googlevich offers the internet user to surf the web as if they were surfin in a suprematistic kind of way. Take an suprematistic virtual trip to the Black Square and experience the Malevich Black Square Censorship at home! It's open source, free and easy!

 

Version 0.0.2 beta; 20.03.2011; 64 KB

 

 

Disclaimer: This software is experimental, it might harm your user profile.

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Googlevich Chrome Add-on

Experience the censored Malevich internet at home!

The Chrome add-on Googlevich offers the internet user to surf the web as if they were surfin in a suprematistic kind of way. Take an suprematistic virtual trip to the Black Square and experience the Malevich Black Square Censorship at home! It's open source, free and easy!


Version 0.0.1 beta; 18.03.2011; 12 KB



Disclaimer: This software is experimental, it might harm your user profile.

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Googlevich Safari Add-on

Experience the censored Malevich internet at home!

The Safari add-on Googlevich offers the internet user to surf the web as if they were surfin in a suprematistic kind of way. Take an suprematistic virtual trip to the Black Square and experience the Malevich Black Square Censorship at home! It's open source, free and easy!


Version 0.0.1 beta; 19.03.2011; 36 KB



Disclaimer: This software is experimental, it might harm your user profile.

 

 

 

Instructions

Simply follow the 5 Steps:

  1. Click the "Download Now" button, confirm install.
  2. After installation confirm restart of Firefox to activate GVFF
  3. Click on the "GO" button, which appears in the top left on the additional tool bar in your Firefox browser to initialize GVFF.
  4. Click on the OK button in the popup window to finalize the installation process.
  5. Select "GOOGLEVICH 0.1" and click "GO", then go google image search to experience the Black Square Censorship.


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Note: Googlevich Firefox Add-on - Experience the Malevich Black Square Censorship at home! Especially for Google Images!

 

 

 

Exhibition KMBS 2.0

Artist: Malevich, Kasimir
Title of Work: Black Square
Date of Work: 1913
Nationality: Russian
Context: Hard-Edge Geometric Abstraction; pre-revolutionary Russia Movement: Russian Suprematism Medium: oil

Subject: black square on white field, carrying abstraction to its ultimate geometric simplification. Called a "dead square" and a "void" by the critics, as well as "the greatest by far among the fairground tricks of instant culture." To Malevich, however, this square symbolized a "full void," in that it showed how painting could fulfill itself unaided by any reference to a specific external reality. For him the square represented only Suprematism: "the supremacy of pure feeling" in and of itself. Malevich removes specific subject matter by shifting away from representation and mimesis and towards the purity of mathematical geometry. "The square = feeling, the white field = the void beyond this feeling." Style: not gestural, not representational, no sign of personal touch; it is not about individual expression. The black square is not quite as simple as it looks: even by taking art to degree zero as Malevich does here, he creates a stressed reading of figure/ground that reads two ways, either a black square on top of a white ground or a black hole surrounded by a white border. Every object has a static facade and an inner dynamic, he believed. Still, quite minimal in effect; in fact, this hard-edge geometric abstraction is the forerunner of the later 1960s movement, Minimalism. Context: pre-revolutionary Russia; the Communist Revolution will happen in October 1917. The way in which Malevich does away with any representation of the material, physical world in this visionary, non-objective art parallels the way the revolution will do away with the hated old order. Envisioning a new reality on a higher plane; Malevich was a devout Christian mystic. For him, like Kandinsky, spirit and feeling rule over matter. Suprematism is his movement: "To the Suprematist, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth." Not a black hole so much as a new threshold for painting. Quite a bold leap into complete abstraction since Russian art was still stuck in naturalism and epic narrative painting (akin to a long Russian novel). Malevich knew about the European avant-garde through two sources: Shchukin's collection of Matisse and Picasso, and through Marinetti, the author of the Italian Futurist manifesto, who made two trips to Russia, in 1909-10 and 1914. Still, it must have taken great courage for Malevich to exhibit 35 hard-edge geometric abstractions, including this one, in 1915 under the title, "Suprematism." From that point on, until Stalin established an official style of Soviet Realism in 1932, Russia was the most progressive country in the world in terms of modern abstract art.

 

 

 

Rationale

The full story and background

The rationale for censorship is different for various types of information censored:

* Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is censored in most jurisdictions in the world.

* Military censorship is the process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential and away from the enemy. This is used to counter espionage, which is the process of gleaning military information. Very often, militaries will also attempt to suppress politically inconvenient information even if that information has no actual intelligence or combat-tactical value.[citation needed]

* Political censorship occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. This is often done to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression that might foment rebellion. Another version of censorship is the phenomenon of disinformation which uses "red herrings" to distract people from some other controversial issue.

* Religious censorship is the means by which any material considered objectionable by a certain faith is removed. This often involves a dominant religion forcing limitations on less prevalent ones. Alternatively, one religion may shun the works of another when they believe the content is not appropriate for their faith.

* Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light.

More information on internet censorship at

http://opennet.net
http://www.internetfreedom.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship

 

 

 

About Us

Who's behind the Project

Googlevich 1.0 was developed by

- Ax710,
- and
- Vincent Bruijn

ax710
"Certain themes circulate like viruses through ax710. The brain as matter and it's relation towards the why of art and society form the main portal to an almost subversive and ecstatic world. This is how ax710 intervenes in the structures of an art that determines the systems in this age of fast and radical changes"

Vincent Bruijn
"Ingenious and nimble maneuvers Vincent Bruijn himselve as a cheerful cynic by intellectualism and absurdity and makes use of remix, junk and alternative economic models in a game in which power, convention and art come together."

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