Hi Anni, Thank you so much for your comments. I do share many of your concerns! But, the work is in progress - one of the good thing about this particular residency , no final outcome required! (however, project had to go public now, so I am aware that I need to very soon add an ³about² text to make it clear that I¹m aware that it throws up a lot of issues)
So, I am far away from concluding it in your words, I am insisting with it. I¹m still considering final presentation and implications of outsourcing work for small fees (including asking workers to show themselves for a fee is this something the wouldn¹t otherwise have done. There¹s a choice to not accept the work, but when you need money..). However, I did have conversations with many of those who submitted (they were aware how their content would be used publicly) and many had embraced the jobs because it was for an artwork. This includes knowing that their images and texts would possibly be seen and read by many) However, that said it IS a network/neighbourhood of people, working from home alone, for miniscule fees (I paid much more than most I thought that was good! but, did this push someone to participate?). In part, I hope to make visible that this is a network of people. I respect the people. I don¹t think they are sad they just have to work like the rest of us, and this is the way they do it. In other ways, it may be about exposing an increasingly deployed employment model (on and off-line) that operates for the benefit of employers without any guarantees or security for workers (All the work I do is freelance/visiting lecturing, paid in daily or hourly rates, so I know about this intimately, but this is extreme, paying workers for minutes of work) Finally, I am really sorry if my initial invitation to netbehaviour came across as wanting to instrumentalise you for my own gain. This was seriously not intended to be so. I have a great fondness for the network despite not knowing many of you, and genuinely wanted to see¹ you. However, as only very few replied, I had to move on, for now, as the work continues, the invitation still stands to submit portraits, thoughts and comments on the neighbourhood: http://www.criticalm.org/projects/digitalrr.html I am not done with this. All best M From: Annie Abrahams <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:10:29 +0200 To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Love thy neighbours (an update) my last sentences should have been: The artmarket needs objects? Fast Quick and Effective. Yours Annie On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Annie Abrahams <bram.org <http://bram.org> @gmail.com <http://gmail.com> > wrote: > 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> > -- 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> _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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