On May 25th, SHAPE Post-Doc Renée Ridgway and artist/programmer Anders Visti conducted a hands-on workshop at ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic/Emerging Art), which took place this year in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

The workshop made use of a bespoke platform (https://re-search.site), which enabled participants from around the world (Korea, France, Germany, Canada), to visualise, compare and interpret their results from diverse browsers/search engines/chatbots. In the first 1,5 hours, participants compared their default search browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.) and search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc.), to newly chosen ones they could select from the platform’s interface.

The second half of the workshop focused on the ‘art of prompting’, where participants experimented with a ‘chatbot rodeo’ (Gemini, ChatGPT, Llama 3.3, Le Chat, DeepSeek-R1), with the interface comparing results from the same question or ‘task specification.’ The participants then read, reviewed and critiqued their search results and then shared their experiences with the group.

The project was supported by SHAPE.