---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Krystian Woznicki <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 4:32 PM Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Winter School · Artworks · Online Access To: <[email protected]> Hi, the Berliner Gazette Winter School SILENT WORKS is making a significant portion of its on-site exhibition available online, including video and audio works. More to come. The idea is to create a sustainable public archive of resources dealing with hidden labor in AI-capitalism. Emerging at a critical juncture as world society is experiencing one of its most severe crisis in recent years, the artworks not only reflect this moment, but also provide timely impulses for emerging struggles. Remaining accessible for years to come, future viewers and listeners will be able to look back when likely still struggling to come to terms with what happened in 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic caught us on the wrong foot. STORIES OF LABOR USUALLY INVISIBILIZED IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF 'ESSENTIAL SERVICES' *Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op* (Mexico/US) "We are addressing the conflicting perspectives of workers, activists, and communities regarding the case of the opening of Awesome in NYC. Based on our group’s organizing of sustainable alternatives to contemporary capitalism, we’ll connect our experiences with systematically invisibilized labor struggles inside the Awesome empire." https://vimeo.com/476295368 *eeefff* (Belarus/Russia) "We hired random people from a post-Soviet headhunter platform whose labor is usually rendered invisible; they work for the machinery of micro-tasking, crowdsourcing, stress, A/B testing, and do all the work that is hidden at the end. And we have created a fictional space for them to talk and live through this alienated work." https://vimeo.com/474958896 *Melanie Gilligan* (Canada) "Gilligan’s work subverts and recodes the status quo that defines care workers as part of the system’s infrastructure, and that – so long as this infrastructure functions in a frictionless fashion – literally invisibilizes these very workers. In contrast to that, the artist presents care workers as an integral but neglected part of (social) infrastructure, prompting viewers to think about how societies could ensure that they remain visible, recognized, and valued for the indispensable work they do." https://vimeo.com/479369903 *Into the Black Box* (Italy) "Following their objective of reconstructing the transformations that Amazon is spearheading in the world of work, Into the Black Box’s visual cartography not only enables an elaborate critique of the Amazon model and its restructuring of labor, but also offers a glimpse into the potential for labor struggles yet to come." https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/Into-the-Amazon-Box.pdf *Petero Kalulé* (Uganda/UK) and *AM Kanngieser* (Australia) "With regard to concrete AI labor practices, Petero Kalulé (Uganda/UK) and AM Kanngieser (Australia) tackle the teaching, training, and supervising of AI and how they are circumscribed under an AI design and ethics program. They look at examples of training, teaching, regulation, and supervision, e.g., online platform content moderators and how their knowledge as subjects of labor is programmed, classed, and unhumaned on an ongoing basis as a part of a global capitalist imaginary." https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/ai-kanngieser-kalule *Peng* (Germany) "If Lieferando is somewhat representative of today’s AI-capitalism, then Peng's action prompts us to think how we can act within, against, and beyond this dehumanizing system of exploitation, extraction, and control." https://vimeo.com/478833658 INTERVENTIONS INTO THE UNCONCIOUS AND UNWAGED 'LABOR OF LOOKING' *Shinseungback Kimyonghun* (South Korea) "Equipped with a facial recognition system enabling it to detect if a face presents itself, the mirror questions our relationship to our face as capital, and our looking as labor that AI technologies render into value – or don’t." https://vimeo.com/479338048 *Benjamin Heisenberg* (Swiss) "In addressing the labor of looking in AI-capitalism, Heisenberg’s work challenges the widespread assumption that man is no longer key to the inner workings of the capitalist world, which is ostensibly run by the high-tech version of Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” Instead, his work challenges the visitor to think how we as laborers can reposition ourselves in the face of an invisible hand that needs us to develop its power." https://vimeo.com/479456176 MAKING AUDIBLE OTHERWISE SILENCED STRUGGLES AROUND 'RESEARCH LABOR' *NoCyberValley* (Germany) "NoCyberValley is a loose alliance of activists who has initiated various forms of protest against the emergence of the Cyber Valley – 'Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial intelligence with partners from science and industry.' The visual impressions from the protest against Cyber Valley in the diary "unmuted" – exhibited at SILENT WORKS – are supplemented by an audio-loop sampling recordings from various moments of the protest. Sometimes pensive, sometimes angry and loud, it is a document of common people arguing about the future (of technology and the city)." https://soundcloud.com/berliner-gazette/nocybervalley-silent-works FURTHER READING... Read more about these contributions to SILENT WORKS in this booklet: https://berlinergazette.de/wp-content/uploads/SILENT-WORKS_Reader.pdf And read an interview that has been published today on Mediapart.fr with political geographer *Evelina Gambino* about labor struggles in logistical landscapes, also discussing two artistic contributions to SILENT WORKS by *Tekla Aslanishvili* and *Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze* (both Georgia): https://blogs.mediapart.fr/krystian-woznicki/blog/191120/de-assembling-deter... Please spread the word! 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