Outsourcing Offshore

Under the umbrella of a fictional headless corporation known as Green Space Industries, Nicholas Masterton from Unknown Fields Human Resources Department has outsourced his project to distributed workforces of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, Task Rabbit and Fiver.com. For just a few cents you can give a task to the crowd of the internet and legions of cheap and willing workers from all over the world have been competing to carry out his human intelligence tasks. They have been photographing their workspace, documenting their day and recording their most intimate fears and desires. From dispersed home offices and disparate bedrooms stretching across the globe this invisible workforce has been assigned the task of constructing a film of the atomised city they all now occupy. They work alone in a team and collectively they have assembled a portrait of a new form of city, a place of nowhere and everywhere, dispersed across the earth and tied together with the fibre tendrils of the network. How do we conceive of this kind of city, can we walk its corridors and chat by the water cooler of the global outsourced office.

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