Hello Marianne, I watched your results, read something of your description of the project and some of the texts written by the workers. Your project is profoundly disturbing : alarming, shocking and also good, I wrote on my facebook page.
I find it very difficult to express my reactions and find facts, not just disturbing feelings. The text written by the workers seem to be very personal and are interesting to read - they give a lot of information about how people experience online neighbourhoods and what it could be. These lines contrast a lot with the videofiles - they show tired, staring, lonely? people, what also might say a lot about these neighbourhoods. So far the shocking and good part I guess. Now what do I find alarming? - I am not sure, but probably the fact you choose to outsource a project about virtual neighbourhoods, about networks, that you so easily dismissed the artistic neighbourhood you tried to "instumentalise" for your project - ( that is how I felt it). I think you didn't make a project about neighbourhoods or about visualising virtual networks but about something else. I also have the feeling that the "obligation" to have a final result primed over a process that could have been interesting if you had insisted. The a On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, list|marianne <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > Bringing a little love to the list! > Since I involved your all in my work for the Digital Rules and Regs > Residency, I thought I should share what happened now that the residency > has come to an end. > > I wanted to visualise the neighbours (those I connect with in virtual > networks like this) Response was limited - which I understand - so I decided > to outsource the content creation to online workers - those that complete > small tasks online in return for a fee. (Residency rules asked me to Obey > the Market as well) > > I have been genuinely excited by what was returned. It has been lovely to > see and subsequently connect with the globally dispersed neighbourhood > workers. There is potential in this. > > Currently the content is simply presented as "neighbourwhos?" via here - > http://www.rulesandregs.org/digital11.html > (Includes initial notes on the work [in progress] as well as link to work > by residency neighbours Salvatore Iacnesi and Oriana Persico) > > I am now working on how to finally present it (including thinking through > the differentials between virtual and physical neighbourhoods) while > considering how outsourcing and paying for content may work for this and > future work (including the ethics involved in supporting an increasingly > dominant market model that provides jobs for miniscule fees without any job > security). > > > Love to all the neighbours, > Marianne > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- *Touchée Manipilée* Photos, vidéo, texte de la performance du 7 mai à la Tapisserie, Paris http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/touche-manipule/ *Theme Song Revisited* (After Acconci) Video recording of the performance : http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/after-acconci/ <http://vimeo.com/22335939>
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