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Kurzbeschreibung
We describe the unfair and inhumane working conditions that we face as Assistant Mailroom Clerks of EXISTech Corporation. Through compulsory wearing of computer-enhanced ``smart'' uniforms, we are forced to live in a Computer-Mediated Mixed Reality where our every interaction with other people is mediated and managed by EXISTech. Firstly we describe the degrading, humiliating, and downright dehumanizing decontamination process we must undergo every time we enter our Local Branch Office at 80 Spadina Avenue, in Toronto. The mandatory wearing of uniforms is a degrading practice very much like what prisoners undergo. Worse yet, our uniforms track our every movement with electrodes monitoring our bodies. We can't take off our uniforms even when we're away from our Branch Office, whether we're at lunch, shopping, or just passing through Canada Customs. Our Laser EyeTap eyeglasses are fitted with two metal bands that go around the backs of our heads to ensure we can't take the glasses off. This forces us to photograph and videotape any of our business clients and contacts, or anyone else we might meet, from lowly fellow mail-room clerks all the way up to a judge. We are not even allowed (or able) to open our briefcases for routine searches by police, without first fingerprinting the police or other officials. Our managers have such little trust in us, that our fingerprint scanning briefcases are programmed so that only persons not employed by EXISTech Corporation can open the cases. This action by our management suggests that we're trusted even less than randomly selected persons whether homeless or law enforcement. Clearly, as Cyborgs, we are the lowest members of society. In this paper we warn you that it's no fun being at the very bottom of the Corporate hierarchy.
KünstlerInnen / AutorInnen
- Steve Mann, Professor, University of Toronto Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
- James Fung
- Corey Manders
Entstehung
Kanada, 2001
Eingabe des Beitrags
Steve Mann, 15.06.2001
Kategorie
- künstlerische Arbeit
Schlagworte
Ergänzungen zur Schlagwortliste
- Mediated Reality |
- Employee Tracking |
- Mandatory Automated Strip Searches Under the Guise of Decontamination |
- Recipient Biometrics |
- Employee Disease Screening and Mandatory Medical Exams |
- Humiliation |
- Decontamination |
- Subjugation |
- Sender Screening. |
- Comparametric Equations