Re-search.site is a custom online platform that aesthetically compares users’ search results from diverse browsers and search engines through data visualisation. Additionally, a ‘chatbot rodeo’ compares answers to users’ prompts from a range of chatbots in real time.
https://re-search.site

For more than two decades, Google Search has shaped how we navigate the web, and how knowledge is organized online. But things are changing. The uptake of generative AI is transforming search from a tool that points to information, into a system that increasingly offers synthesized answers, generated on the fly.

The public re-search.site platform explores search at this moment of transition. It looks at how search has historically worked, and how those mechanics are being reconfigured by large language models and generative interfaces.

The platform is presented in a workshop setting. Workshop participants are invited to think critically about search not only as a technical system, but as a cultural and political one: Who gets represented? Who gets summarized—or erased? And what does it mean to “search” in a world where answers are written for us?

Re-search.site is a collaboration between artist/researcher Renée Ridgway and artist/programmer Anders Visti.

Previous workshops:

• January 21st, 2026. Workshop. "The Online Search Rodeo" @KLUB, Linnésgade 25, 1361 København K. Code&Share[61]. Organised by Code&Share[ ] and Open Source Democracy
• May 25th, 2025 ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic/Emerging Art), Seoul, South Korea.
  Workshop: "The Art of (Re)search — Comparing, Contemplating and critiquing search results". Sogang University
• May 13th, 2025. Workshop. "Re:search - Comparing, critiquing and contemplating search results" Aesthetic Programming, Aarhus University.
• May 9th, 2025. Presentation. CuPra, Cultures and Practices of Digital Technologies, Aarhus University.
• November 30th, 2024. Workshop: "Re:search - Comparing, critiquing and contemplating search results". DOKK1 public library, Aarhus.
• April 24th, 2024. Workshop: "Re:search - Data visualizations as transcription". Digital Design, Aarhus University.
• September 30th, 2023. Workshop: "Re:search — Data visualizations as transcription". Processing Community Day @Aarhus 2023. New Aarch, architecture school of Aarhus. https://pcdaarhus.net/
• June 17th, 2023. Workshop: "Re:search: The Personalised Subject vs. the Anonymous User". Code&Share[43]. https://codeandshare.net/