Indo-American artist Tara Kelton's work Autoportrait is a stirring comment on the invisibility of Amazon's low-wage workers Ambition NewIssue
I grew up in Bengaluru, and my work frequently employs the services of IT companies whose headquarters and offices are based there. Into draw their self-portraits. These were combined in real time using custom-made software.The work was first shown at Galleryske, Bengaluru.In my practice, I consider the traditional figure of the artist/craftsperson in relation to the digital.
When each worker accepted a task they arrived at a blank screen, with a brush size or colour palette to choose from, on which they were asked to draw themselves. Meanwhile, the master screen displayed every line any worker anywhere produced, in real time, as they were drawing; layered on top of each other .
Through this process the viewer could see all the lines that every Turker was producing as they were producing them, together on a single screen. The hardest part of creating the work was to make it function in real time. I worked with two programmers over a period of weeks and we used a dedicated Flash server that would allow for the combination of multiple drawings from each individual in real time.
Or, sometimes, it is like a science project, where I have a hypothesis, and I am doing an experimental project to prove or disprove it. On the occasions when the experiment can be run in real-time, like inI also examine how technology can complicate authorship, and the new modes of collaboration that have become possible in the wake of the internet and increased connectivity between people, new forms of hardware, and cheap computing.
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