Workers Leaving the Googleplex

Item

Title
Workers Leaving the Googleplex
Description
Wilson’s installation, Workers Leaving the Googleplex, features illicit footage of marginalized class of Google Books “ScanOps” workers at Google’s international corporate headquarters in Silicon Valley. Situated within a motion picture history of Lumière Brothers’ Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), and Farocki’s Workers Leaving the Factory (1995), the piece addresses the transformations and continuities in arrangements of labor, media and information.
Date
2011
Type
moving image
Medium
video art
Extent
11 minutes
place of creation
Silicon Valley
Item sets
Surveillance Art