24/7 #8

Driven by an interest in exploring and criticizing what labor has become in the information economy, Guido Segni has directed his attention to crowdworkers by turning them into actors in video performances and photography projects. In “24/7,” he focuses on the online marketplace Fiverr, in which freelancers advertise their services for one-off gigs. Initially set with a base price of $5 per gig, it has attracted many workers who carry out simple tasks for small amounts of money, under unequal labor conditions and with almost no rights to the products of their labor. To create “24/7,” Segni ran a script for a week (24 hours over 7 days), scraping and downloading video...View all