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Leisure factory

Crowdsourced Precarity

The visual result of the Leisure factory project is a series of webcam portraits taken by workers / users of Amazon's Mechanical Turk of themselfves in their own working environement.

Workers Mechanical Turk complete online so-called 'HITS' (stands for Human Intelligence Task) for a monetary payment. Depending on the type of HIT the amount of payment usually ranges in between a few dollar cents up to a few dollars.

special thanks to Aymeric Mansoux

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+[[File:000Leisure factory-mechanical turk screenshot.png]]
+=='''Leisure factory'''==
 <u>Crowdsourced Precarity</u>
-YOU DESERVE A MINUTE OFF.
+The visual result of the Leisure factory project is a series of webcam portraits taken by workers / users of Amazon's Mechanical Turk of themselfves in their own working environement.
+Workers Mechanical Turk complete online so-called 'HITS' (stands for Human Intelligence Task) for a monetary payment. Depending on the type of HIT the amount of payment usually ranges in between a few dollar cents up to a few dollars.
+special thanks to Aymeric Mansoux
-Stand up. Do 1 minute of exercise. Make a snapshot of yourself using your webcam.
+[[File:leisurefactory001.jpg]]
-Upload the image to any imagesharing service. Paste the URL of your uploaded image below and get payed 0.10$.