FACTORY RESET THEAMTIC PROJECT w/ Florian Cramer, Trimester 3, 2012

Reading journal / blog of Factory Reset readings

LEISURE FACTORY project

Crowdsourced Precarity

The visual result of the Leisure factory project is a series of webcam portraits taken by workers / users of Amazons Mechanical Turk of themselves in their own working environment.

Who are the workers of the Mechanical Turk? What is the Mechanical Turk?

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special thanks to Aymeric Mansoux

Concept

SNOOZE SCRIPT V1 PDF

Media

Photos

TEST

http://www.youtube.com/embed/BWjLSjW_iRs

ARCHIVE and MEMORY by ANNET DEKKER

Annet proposed to participate in an open competition closely connected to our theme Archive and Memory.

Beeld en Geluid in association with the EYE published a great amount of archive film material in a broad range of topics. The participant could use these footage to remix, to mash, to scratch them and add any kind of self made footage according to their will.

My original approach was to create an 'analogue' physical sequencer using several phones as the displays of the clips following each other.

The output would have been the documentation of this 'installation'. I was planning to play with the Kuleshov effect: for instance there is three phones each playing one short movie clip looped. But after a while, we would change the order. The first one would go to the end of the sequenc and last one would became the first one.

The forementioned idea was the original one, but I knew I have to let myself and my idea to let be formed by the material I have given. I decided to stick to the footage and do not add any selfmade material upon them.

I have produced a playful video piece that explores the relationship between modern digital technology and the traditional analogue techniques.

http://celluloidremix.openbeelden.nl/ [4th of May, 2012]

Watch it on Youtube in full screen – or do what you want.

STILLS