Pics or it didn't happen

Proofs of existence of a cloud worker

Between June and July 2014, to prove their existence and their status as crowd workers, more than forty workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk were paid ninety cents each to re-enact, in front of their webcam, a YouTube clip titled "pics or it didn't happen".

The video is part of the larger Pics or it didn't happen project, developed for HOC / Contemporary, and was first shown on September 12th, 2014 at Pavillon Social, Kunstverein in Lucca.

2014
Crowdsourced webcam videos

READ ME BY EMAIL

An email that arrives now and then, from a server out in the bushes. Works, shows, texts, and whatever the feed has no room for. Mostly in Italian. If it doesn't arrive, blame me. No spam. I haven't got enough material even for that.

Fatto. Ti abbiamo mandato un link magico via email: apri la casella e clicca per completare l’iscrizione.

The artist is typing. Now and somewhere...