Data Production Labor #1
Installation
Data Production Labor #1
Presented at various locations
Exploring the value of humans' attention and actions while performing everyday activities in social media such as scrolling through their social media feeds.
A sensor collects data from the hand movements while using social apps, an emotion-recognition software looks at the face and registers the visceral response to what is seen on the screen.
Through this process and the correlations it creates, a receipt is produced that enables participants to demand a payment from those companies.
The installation invites participants to perform a working shift of 2 minutes in order to reveal the economic value of their production of data.
Participants of Data Production Labour #1 reveal their invisible labour for the Big Data industry by just scrolling through their social media feed.
This project is supported by the Summer Sessions Network for Talent Development in a collaboration with the Master in Technology and Aesthetics of Electronic Arts - National University of Tres de Febrero and V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, with support of the Creative Industries Fund NL.