<div dir="ltr">Yes! I am stressed! Yes I am overwhelmed! Yes I could use more 'me time!'<div><br></div><div>On first viewing, my brain flags behind my ability to comprehend what's going on. I thought the script was written with machine learning possibly, to be performed or voiced by a human. </div><div>With more reflection, I realize that is sort of correct. The 'spokesperson' is announcing how to MAKE YOURSELF a "ghost, get hard, get in the mood, get more energy, get nightmares, get over a guy, get out of bed to workout" and hundreds more topics, probably as a result of the top Google search results for the initial phrase. And those results are being fed/delivered to the spokesmodel. From here, even thought I understand the process, and so I'd imagine my brain would shut off, instead I find myself anticipating what might come next. Blandness mixes with confusion and serendipitous results. The matching images are even stranger and just as compelling: a google image search soup of How To article images, promotional banners, stock images, Disney character images, models, pop stars and kittens. By the time we get near the end of the alphabet, I'm anticipating the end but not wanting it to arrive. How to make yourself a zombie. How to make yourself zone out. Yes.</div><div><br></div><div>The artists describe their project as promotional video / performance collaboration between an algorithm, a pair of artists, and a gig-economy-spokesperson-for-hire. They're interested in how art can be shaped in our current global economy and how is labor shifted. These are of course huge topics, but the use of these arenas as tools for commentary but also as tools for critical practice point to a fruitful new approach and genre(s).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Daniel Lichtman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danielp73@gmail.com" target="_blank">danielp73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div dir="ltr">Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez<br>Making You, Making Others<br><br>Video link: <a href="http://anxioustomake.ga/makingyoumakingothers.html" target="_blank">http://anxioustomake.ga/<wbr>makingyoumakingothers.html</a><br><br>Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Her work strives to create an expanded, thoughtful consideration for digital culture. Berdugo has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco.<br><br>Emily Martinez is an artist working with digital and networked media. Her recent practice and research interests examine the relationship between media, memory, and catastrophe; post-representational forms of subjectivity, emancipatory practices, and the digital archive. Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.</div>
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