I work, therefore I am
2023
Type : Interactive installation
Material: Arduino, aluminum, plywood, stepper motors, linear actuator, punch clock, servo, screens, paper, pen, heating element
2023
Type : Interactive installation
Material: Arduino, aluminum, plywood, stepper motors, linear actuator, punch clock, servo, screens, paper, pen, heating element
- Finalist of Media Art Awards, ifva 2024 @Hong Kong
- ifva Media Art Awards Finalist Exhibition 2024 @Hong Kong Art Center
- Excellent Award, Interactive Arts (Student category), Asia Digital Art Award 2024 @Fukuoka, Japan
An Interactive Installation depicting a bullshit work environment
“We have become a civilization based on work — not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
“I work, therefore I am” is an interactive physical installation, portraying a meaningless work environment with a factory line that continually produces and fills in forms only to erase them, which symbolizes the cyclical and fruitless nature of certain pointless jobs. Layers of monitoring mechanisms further accentuate the pointlessness of the bureaucratic system. Visitors are invited to engage with this meaningless system by punching in with the time clock to “enter” the system. The installation aims to spark dialogue on the meaning and nature of jobs in today's society.
“We have become a civilization based on work — not even “productive work” but work as an end and meaning in itself.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“I work, therefore I am” is an interactive physical installation, portraying a meaningless work environment with a factory line that continually produces and fills in forms only to erase them, which symbolizes the cyclical and fruitless nature of certain pointless jobs. Layers of monitoring mechanisms further accentuate the pointlessness of the bureaucratic system. Visitors are invited to engage with this meaningless system by punching in with the time clock to “enter” the system. The installation aims to spark dialogue on the meaning and nature of jobs in today's society.