Human Intelligence Task (HIT) / Maurice Wald (DE), Juan Felipe (CO)
The work draws on parallels between cybernetics and digital labor in microwork marketplaces and engages with the materiality of a process where matter seemingly doesn't matter; where repetitive machine tasks are outsourced to humans — mediated by platforms like Amazon's "MechanicalTurk". According to the court order concerning reCAPTCHA in Rojus-Lozano v. Google, the few seconds it takes to transcribe a word is not entitled to compensation - on microwork platforms the few seconds are repeated for whole days in order to make a living. In playing with the digital and the analogue, using images of repetition and (lost) creativity, the work focuses on the material aspects behind platformized digital labor.
This project is part of the new joint research-based master's program in Design & Computation from the cooperation between the University of the Arts Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder
Human Intelligence Task (HIT) / Maurice Wald (DE), Juan Felipe (CO)
The work draws on parallels between cybernetics and digital labor in microwork marketplaces and engages with the materiality of a process where matter seemingly doesn't matter; where repetitive machine tasks are outsourced to humans — mediated by platforms like Amazon's "MechanicalTurk". According to the court order concerning reCAPTCHA in Rojus-Lozano v. Google, the few seconds it takes to transcribe a word is not entitled to compensation - on microwork platforms the few seconds are repeated for whole days in order to make a living. In playing with the digital and the analogue, using images of repetition and (lost) creativity, the work focuses on the material aspects behind platformized digital labor.
This project is part of the new joint research-based master's program in Design & Computation from the cooperation between the University of the Arts Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin.
Photo: Florian Voggeneder