I am sure this is worthy but it is oh so dull...
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 9:54 AM
Subject: [NetBehaviour] Art Books with stolen YouTube comments up for sale on
Amazon Kindle.
Art Books with stolen YouTube comments up for sale on Amazon Kindle.
KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS Press Release.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Vienna, 9 June 2012.
KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS.
A project by TRAUMAWIEN and Bernhard Bauch. 2011-2012.
Our bots are compiling and uploading hundreds of ebooks on Amazon.com
with text stolen from the comments on YouTube videos.
http://www.amazon.com/Sparta-my-have-ebook/dp/B007MLJZSS/
http://www.amazon.com/Wierd-song-you-cute-ebook/dp/B007MMCYIU/
http://www.amazon.com/Alot-was-been-hard-ebook/dp/B007MMF2CU/
We programmed the bots to be completely autonomous. They are working
uninterrupted through dislocated, anonymized accounts. We are not even
able to track the exact amount of generated books infiltrating the
Amazon Kindle library. The results are self-published, human-readable
ebooks in form of classical dramas ready to be sold and enjoyed by a
multitude of global readers, defining a new generative genre of digital
literature: the 'slang of Youtube' - a digital Esperanto that emerged
out of millions of users worldwide.
The Internet slang of YouTube comments is treated as fresh dialogue, and
sold through Amazon.com in the form of massive, self-generated e-books.
In an auto-cannibalistic model, user generated content is sold back to
the users themselves, parasitically exploiting both corporations:
YouTube and Amazon.
The KINDLE'VOKE GHOST WRITERS project's aim is to address and identify
pertinent questions concerning the digital publishing industry's
business models, as well as to draw the lines of new trends for a
possible new kind of digital literature, after the web.
The project wants to raise questions like: who do YouTube
videos/comments belong to? Where does authorship start and end? To what
extent does the e-book format have to be reconsidered with regard to the
traditional book form, and what are its most innovative opportunities?
How could we act and work on it?
Furthermore, this project explores the idea of exploitation of labor on
web platforms to create or comment on attractive content. So-called
"user generated content" is a product created and consumed in the
exchange of free labor managed with surplus information overflow. Giant
Internet corporations exploit people's ingenuity by trading contextual
advertising. Users are the workers of a communication-junk factory,
whose bytes are consumed by the producers themselves. By manipulating
this exploitation, our system will give fair fame to the authors of
those texts that clearly deserve a fair piece of the pie of this
nonsense economy.
The project will presented in Vienna, on June 26, 2012.
At Kandinsky
Lerchenfelderstrasse 13 1070 Vienna 20h.
A discussion will follow.
http://goo.gl/maps/Xgyu
Thanks for the attention.
TRAUMAWIEN, Luc Gross
http://traumawien.at/ghostwriters
http://facebook.com/traumawien
http://twitter.com/traumawien
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