February 28, 2018
7pm
Christine Price Gallery
In conjunction with The Laboring Self art installation in the Christine Price Gallery, Return to Sender is a tactical media workshop, combining craft and technology to create a platform for embodied crowd worker protest. Workshop organizers Burrough and Starnaman conducted 100 surveys with crowd workers on Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk website during a yearlong investigation of how unregulated virtual labor affects their bodies. Workers were also asked to submit a tracing of their hand. In this workshop, the workers’ sentiments are transformed by a participating public into “Hired Hands”—artifacts sent back to Amazon headquarters. We facilitate a labor protest for 21st-century crowd workers on the model of 19th-century labor activism.