The Middle Finger Response is a curated selection of 300+ spontaneous self portraits of cloud workers I commisioned travelling around one of the most represantive crowdsourcing platform: Amazon Mechanical Turk.
All the workers in the selection have been paid about 0.5$ in order to take a webcam picture of themselves showing their face, their context and, ultimately, their middle finger response.
It's just a cynical but sincere attempt to establish a dialogue between the artist, the public and the crowd dispersed through the new frontiers of leisure, labour and exploitation in the age of the big cloud.
Full Description
The Middle Finger Response is a curated selection of 300+ spontaneous self portraits of cloud workers I commisioned travelling around one of the most represantive crowdsourcing platform: Amazon Mechanical Turk.
All the workers in the selection have been paid about 0.5$ in order to take a webcam picture of themselves showing their face, their context and, ultimately, their middle finger response.
It's just a cynical but sincere attempt to establish a dialogue between the artist, the public and the crowd dispersed through the new frontiers of leisure, labour and exploitation in the age of the big cloud.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2013
- Submitted to ArtBase: Tuesday Mar 19th, 2013
- Original Url: http://www.crowdworkersoftheworldunite.com/
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Work Credits:
- guidosegni, primary creator
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