Inside Google
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- Date/Time
- 01/16/2014 (All Day)
- Description
- Andrew Norman Wilson is a documentarian whose work focuses on Google's labor practices and its authorial power in regards to Google Books. His 2011 film, "Workers Leaving the Googleplex" features footage that Google has tried to suppress through threat of copyright legislation and his 2012 ScanOps exhibit features rejected pages from the scanning of millions of book pages for the GoogleBooks project. You can read more about Wilson's work here: http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/artforumreview.html Wilson's work engages with complex questions regarding the nature of digital labor (and exploitation) as well as the ambiguities within cultural and legal discourse between authorship/ownership/origination.The event included a screening of "Workers Leaving the Googleplex," a presentation by Wilson, and a discussion featuring a panel of ODU scholars including Tim Anderson (Communications Department), Kenneth Fitzgerald (Art Department), David Roh (English Department), and D.E. Wittkower (Philosophy Department). NOTABLES: 98 attendees
