everything at the forest park

everything in the forest park is an extended invitation to partake in all activities available at a forest park in Scotland, according to search engine results. It explores how the web invites different kinds of relations with woodland areas, addressing page visitors as tourists and adventurers, hikers and holidayers, customers and conservationists.

It is composed from fragments of texts extracted from every Google Search result for a forest park in Scotland. While search engines aim to order and optimise results according to their relevance for users and advertisers through crawling and algorithmic ordering, everything in the forest park collapses and reorders these indexed results to produce a speculative account of forest park life.

The piece was created as part of Scrapism at the School for Poetic Computation. It served as inspiration for a series of catalogues as part of a collaborative research paper on “un-indexing forest media”.

Details of sources, process and code can be found here.