"There's a fascinating ongoing discussion about the art project General Intellect on the Aktionsart blog, and it hinges on a term I'm only starting to understand: hypercompliance."
General Intellect is a work of art that uses the ethically ambiguous rules of an online Amazon workforce called Mechanical Turk in order to expose that ethical ambiguity. The art—videos by the workers themselves, paid for by the artist, who hired them on mTurk—was first shown in Seattle at a crumbling old school about to be torn down to make way for yet more gentrifying Amazon-related construction in South Lake Union.
Author: Jen Graves
Date: Mar 24, 2016
Date: Mar 24, 2016