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The Googlegänger

The Googlegänger

2009 - Ongoing

performance, search engine intervention, archival pigment prints
Dimensions variable.


One day I began receiving fan mail via email expressing admiration for my music. Being no musician, it quickly became apparent I had intercepted fan mail intended for another Daniel Bejar. Googling my name I discovered there was indeed another Daniel Bejar, who happened to be the singer and songwriter from Vancouver who leads the band Destroyer. A Google Image Search revealed we also shared a similar likeness.
The Googlegänger is a web-based search engine intervention where I re-stage images of my Googlegänger culled from Google’s Image Search engine. Working with performance and photography the project explores stan culture and challenges ideas of identity within the public realms of our digital world.

These re-staged images are uploaded back on to the Internet, where they coexist alongside the images of my Googlegänger.