Workers Leaving the GooglePlex investigates a top secret, marginalized class of workers at Google’s international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. As I documented the mysterious yellow badged “ScanOps” Google workers, I simultaneously chronicled the complex events surrounding my own dismissal from the company.
With the web 2.0 began the massive analysis of personal data by tracing the behaviors and movements of users in social networks with the aim to identify common structures.
Artists about their work: It’s all about singing. Independence as the aim of “Singing revolution” has brought us capitalism with post-colonialism as a paradoxical consequence of political freedom.
This rhythmic process, accompanied by a musical accelerando and crescendo, races over the landscape at an increasingly fast pace, covering it with increasingly dense abstract patterns. This is beautiful to watch and, in light of the title, also sad.
The subject of the film is the distribution of workers‘ lodgings. The right of domicile given to Safer Korlatovic, explosives expert in a salt mine, is a sufficient motive to make out of an everyday moment a poetic document. Short but subtile human pleasures are recorded, even in those moments which the main figures are not concious of.
“In her brilliant video Art Herstory, [Freed] has restaged art history, putting herself in the model’s role in numerous paintings.... Time dissolves under her humorous assault—one moment in the painting, then out of the canvas and into that period, then back in the studio." — Jonathan Price, Video Art: a Medium Discovering Itself, Art News 76 (January 1977)
In his new video work, Malraux’s Shoes, Dennis Adams masquerades as André Malraux (1901–1976), the French writer, adventurer, Resistance fighter, cultural provocateur, art theorist, orator, statesman, and passionate archivist of the world history of art.
Gary Kibbins is a media artist and writer. Until 2000 he taught at the California Institute of the Arts. A book of essays and scripts was published in 2005: Grammar & Not-Grammar: Selected Scripts and Essays.
