{"uid":"AEtRADzWJqy5WcQ9","type":"artist","tags":["video","performance","social-action","videoinstallation"],"group":"yes","group_name":"Shepherd's Office","project_title":"Shepherd's Office Conference","summary":"Shepherd\u2019s Office (SO) is a collaborative research initiative between artists Daniela Vainio and Zaneta Zukalova, investigating the ethics and politics of digital labour within the framework of the Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) platform. Our proposed participatory project will directly engage the community of AMT workers and the exhibition visitors, who will participate in our performance.\n\nAMT is a crowdsourcing online platform where Requesters (could be companies, researchers) register Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) to be completed by Workers, for very little pay. \n\nTo create our video, we will be using Zoom as a facilitating platform to make a connection to AMT workers, creating a space for them to be seen by and share opinions with their \u2018colleagues' and \u2018employer\u2019. Our duo will satirically perform as Jeffica, the workers\u2019 fictional employer, accompanied by Alexa, a partially automated occupational therapist. The workers will be encouraged to share any feedback on their working conditions, and how Covid-19 affects them, while receiving pretentious advice from Alexa and lack of sympathy from Jeffica, both ironically copying the stereotypes assigned to their roles. \n\nWe will record the Zoom sessions and edit the footage into a video piece. This video will be part of our live performance - a parody on a company conference. We will present the video as a 'research outcome' to be discussed with the rest of our company team, which will be the exhibition visitors in this case.","space":"The preference is to have a room - closed space (imagine a conference room). We will need to fit an oval conference table (10-15 seats) with chairs in. There will be a projector with screen on one of the walls. The space in between the projection wall and the table needs to be at least 3m. The room will need to be lit but not too strong, would be great to have spot lights that can be pointed at different directions.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[{"names":"Daniela","surname":"Vainio","email":"danielavainio@gmail.com","dni_type":"Other","dni":"SZ207396A","address":"Pietarinkatu 16 C 41 00140","city":"Helsinki","nacionality":"Finnish","country_id":"74","birthdate":"1989-07-19T23:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1989-07-19T23:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+358445014465","web":"www.danielavainio.com"}],"lang":"en","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":null,"audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":1,"names":"Zaneta","surname":"Zukalova","email":"zaneta.zukalova@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"41238214","address":"Montana Building, Deals Gateway","city":"London","nacionality":"Czech","country_id":"81","birthdate":"1996-01-24T00:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1996-01-24T00:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+447519484831","web":"www.cargocollective.com\/zanetazukalova"}