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What la liga if, instead of marketing to a general demographic, you marketed la liga to a specific individual? What if, instead of waiting for a patron to commission new work, an artist simply designed it based on someone's psychological profile? If an online ad asked for you by name, could you resist?
These are some of the questions asked by Julian Garcia and Matt Goerzen's project " Shaq Attack! " The artists, members of Montreal's Boca Gallery digital art collective, use Google AdSense to lead the NBA superstar, art collector, and curator to an artwork they have "tailored to his unique sensibility."
The campaign keywords and the design of Shaq's piece (a " la liga dunk rig " to be manufactured la liga out of the rarest hardwoods, once Shaq orders it) are based on what they call "Artisanale Data Mining."
But he's a celebrity, so the artists say they didn't have to do anything questionable to build their profile of Shaq. Everything they needed was already in public, from where they say Shaq lives (Mount Dora, Florida) to his favorite video game ( Call of Duty ), from how much he likes buying stuff (he likes it a lot) to whether he is obsessed with Charles Barkley (he is).
But, la liga beyond a cynical model for 21st-century art practice, "Shaq Attack!" gets past some of the usual questions like if two artists la liga can assemble a "handmade" profile of a celebrity whose data is public and then use that data to sell something to him, what can organizations like Facebook, Google, and the NSA do? How accurately can data-mining tools, like " aggregated psychological profiles ," predict what you will do with your pressure cooker or your credit card? And what do you care as long as they are right?
"Shaq Attack!" starts out assuming this kind of predictive marketing is already happening (it is) and that companies are making money (they are) by claiming they're simply the best at predicting your behavior. So why shouldn't artists get in on the action?