Google Searching For God at ebersB9

Jason Ferguson's current exhibition, Google Searching for God, at ebersb9, features evidence of his attempts at finding a higher power through an Internet search engine.  The evidence presented consists of two 24x36" digital prints, and a hand-built light table displaying a scroll of typewriter-embossed paper.

The prints, titled God Sighting A and B along with an address, show two results of a Google map search for "god," one in Germany, the other in Virginia.  No information is provided as to why God was found in those locations, although the standard Google point-marker shows exactly where He is.  The high-quality archival prints, mounted on aluminum, lend a touch of seriousness to what is essentially a found digital image.

The scroll on the light table, entitled Wikigod, is a sixty-foot scroll of paper, embossed using an inkless typewriter with the entire hypertext transcript of the Wikipedia entry for "God."  The light table is topped with a sheet of plywood.  Small cutouts in the plywood correspond to each occurrence of the word "God" in the text, allowing the light to pass through and illuminate the paper.  The effect is both a pun on "illuminated manuscripts" and a clean and elegant aesthetic presentation of an attempt at understanding what God is.

The slightly misplaced reverence for an artifact of technology perhaps inadvertently recalls