<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Krystian Woznicki</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:kw@berlinergazette.de">kw@berlinergazette.de</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 1:49 PM<br>Subject: [bgcon] SILENT WORKS · Reviews<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:digi-yards@berlinergazette.de">digi-yards@berlinergazette.de</a>><br></div><br><br>Hi,<br>
<br>
last week the most recent text about the BG's 2020 SILENT WORKS project<br>
(<a href="https://silentworks.info" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://silentworks.info</a>) was published and we are taking this as an<br>
occasion to present a selection of reviews that were published in this<br>
year so far.<br>
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*Phoenix Nomi: Summoning the Ghost in the Machine*<br>
"Despite the dystopian undertones, the message in SILENT WORKS is<br>
ultimately one of hope: solidarity is the glue that reconnects humans to<br>
the meanings of our actions. We still have the power to change, and<br>
working together as equals is the only way forward."<br>
<a href="https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/09/06/issue-17/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2021/09/06/issue-17/</a><br>
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*Gavin Mueller: Turning the Magic of AI Inside Out*<br>
"The Berliner Gazette seems to have immediately grasped the significance<br>
of Covid-19 to the already existing trajectories of capitalism’s<br>
technological restructuring, or in their words ‘the pandemic-related<br>
crisis as a crisis of AI-capitalism’."<br>
<a href="https://www.onlineopen.org/silent-works-the-hidden-labor-of-ai-capitalism" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.onlineopen.org/silent-works-the-hidden-labor-of-ai-capitalism</a><br>
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*Kevin Rittberger: Against AI capitalism’s fantasies of powerlessness*<br>
"It is time to recognize Inhuman Labor as Janus-faced: on the one hand,<br>
the inhumane working conditions, including the impossibility of<br>
precarized wage workers to use AI for emancipative, sustainable and<br>
non-capitalist purposes; on the other, Big Tech’s fantasy of<br>
powerlessness, which needs to be exposed as just that."<br>
<a href="https://springerin.at/en/2021/1/isilent-worksi/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://springerin.at/en/2021/1/isilent-worksi/</a><br>
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*Jaron Rowan: Knowledge in Action*<br>
"Ways of knowing that can give a voice to those who suffer from the<br>
imposition of algorithmic logic at work; to the invisible bodies<br>
entangled in distribution and logistics chains; to the workforce<br>
regulated by apps, algorithmic calculations, geo-locations and<br>
notifications."<br>
<a href="https://non.copyriot.com/knowledge-in-action/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://non.copyriot.com/knowledge-in-action/</a><br>
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*Jess Henderson: Full Automation, Full Fantasy*<br>
"The fact that there are real people having to witness and manually<br>
assess content (from banal fodder to ‘the pornographic, the obscene, the<br>
violent, the illegal, the abusive, and the hateful’) illustrates how AI<br>
capitalism is not just a matter of real-existing AI at work, but also a<br>
matter of the fantasy and appearance of AI at work."<br>
<a href="https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/de/2021/01/25/full-automation-full-fantasy-2/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/de/2021/01/25/full-automation-full-fantasy-2/</a><br>
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*Georg Fischer: Making "hidden work" on digital platforms visible* (GER)<br>
"Processes controlled by "artificial intelligence" often appear to<br>
proceed independently. In fact, however, humans perform numerous, often<br>
very monotonous activities in the background. The ambiguous title of one<br>
of the workshop projects "Artificial Artificial Intelligence (AAI)"<br>
refers to this as fake artificial intelligence."<br>
<a href="https://irights.info/webschau/website-macht-verborgene-arbeiten-auf-digitalen-plattformen-sichtbar/30547" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://irights.info/webschau/website-macht-verborgene-arbeiten-auf-digitalen-plattformen-sichtbar/30547</a><br>
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*Gesa Ufer: The Work Behind The Click* (GER)<br>
"Algorithms will do our work for us, is one of the slogans of<br>
digitalization. The conference and exhibition SILENT WORKS of the online<br>
newspaper Berliner Gazette wants to make the "dirty work" behind the<br>
beautiful surfaces visible."<br>
<a href="https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/konferenz-silent-works-die-arbeit-hinter-dem-klick.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=487124" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/konferenz-silent-works-die-arbeit-hinter-dem-klick.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=487124</a><br>
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*Lara Luna Bartley: The Invisible Hand*<br>
"SILENT WORKS got me thinking about invisibilized work more broadly. A<br>
t-shirt is made once, but it is washed hundreds of times. And yet, our<br>
economic systems ascribe economic value to the inititial making but not<br>
the subsequent care."<br>
<a href="http://www.laralunabartley.com/home/the-invisible-hand" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.laralunabartley.com/home/the-invisible-hand</a><br>
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Thanks to all!<br>
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Kind regards, Krystian<br>
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BLACK BOX EAST – "Post-Communist" Laboratories of Globalization<br>
BG Project 2021: Workshops, Texts + Artworks<br>
<a href="https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://blackboxeast.berlinergazette.de</a><br>
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SILENT WORKS – The Hidden Labor in AI-Capitalism  <br>
BG Project 2020: Exhibition, Conference + Texts<br>
<a href="https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://silent-works.berlinergazette.de</a><br>
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MORE WORLD – How Can We Cooperate Across Borders to Tackle Climate Change?<br>
Results from BG’s 20th Anniversary Event: Videos, Audios, Projects + Texts <br>
<a href="https://more-world.berlinergazette.de" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://more-world.berlinergazette.de</a> <br>
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