From order to chaos – individual practice evaluation

Brief

Think about your practice and use the winter holiday to position yourself in the creative world.

Consider how would you bring order from chaos.

 

Response

I was inspired by Lauren Lee McCarthy’s – Social Turkers project where she employed Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to direct her actions in real-time, during dates.

After analysing various aspects of my practice I realised I am fascinated by technology, algorithms and how seemingly automated processes are in fact mere expressions of abstracted human interactions, sometimes hidden and other times quite overt. I am deeply concerned by one particularly problematic aspect of ‘technology’ which is the fetishising of its ‘neutrality’ as if technology on its own could somehow escape from the hegemony of ideology (Chun) instead of being a direct reflection of it. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk somehow represents in my view all of the above ideas simultaneously – it is an expression of the shift in human labour towards a precarious model of competing workers offering services for a minimum payment, it is presented as an automated service complementing and acting as a de-facto virtual AI automated algorithm, but relying on actual humans giving their input.

Because of the service’s emphasis on automation and its comparison to synthetic entities I wanted to explore and bring to the surface the humanity behind its interface.

 

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Programmed Visions: Software and Memory, Software Studies (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011) <http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/rcauk/detail.action?docID=3339277>

 

Therefore, in a literal comment on labour, authorship and algorithms I employed Mechanical Turks workers to answer the question of the brief and used their unfiltered responses and read them in class as a manifesto.

How to move from chaos to order?

 

see all answers below

 

Worker ID Submit Time Response
  A1P683LTPL4C68   Tue Jan 14 19:12:01 PST 2020   Logical organization and categorization.
  A1GZ4Y5HNBTCES   Tue Jan 14 18:08:40 PST 2020   seek patterns
  A3L4J9UD2Z2GJU   Tue Jan 14 18:12:31 PST 2020   There is chaos throughout the graph except at few, infinitesimally small points, wherein order is found. Throughout the universe, there are systems that, despite being inherently chaotic and unpredictable, tend to naturally become ordered
  A1H8AABW86LBCO   Tue Jan 14 18:24:11 PST 2020   I do not know the context that led the famous artist of visual chaos to write that line, but I think it defines most of the serious data analysts and their focus. Big data when it is not filtered by any algorithms or definitions is seeming chaos. Yet we seem to instinctively feel that there is some order in that endless sea of information.
  ASFQ9G5I1CGE0   Tue Jan 14 19:39:48 PST 2020   Stay calm and prioritize what the most important thing is to achieve within the next half hour.
  A39DQX4SY0K9LV   Tue Jan 14 18:40:44 PST 2020   we need to excerceise and yoga daily then we will get a relief
  AYG8B3ZK9K6E4   Tue Jan 14 18:08:32 PST 2020   Focus your attention to the task at hand
  A1X8GO1B236KMK   Tue Jan 14 19:32:34 PST 2020   Make a list of accomplishments that need to be achieved and prioritize them.
  A29OIZAIHTFKUV   Tue Jan 14 18:56:37 PST 2020   find one person who can be a leader to guide you out of chaos
  A36VE0W154IHO7   Tue Jan 14 19:07:40 PST 2020   have to remember the thing often which could not make any big mistakes or change to be occur in the life for that make some changes in the remindering things
  A3G3Z7XWKYE25H   Tue Jan 14 18:56:13 PST 2020   By looking for regular and repeating patterns within the chaos and using them to create order.
  A3B4G7ZH1M5FW1   Tue Jan 14 18:25:15 PST 2020   i was get strong decision about my future.because it was helps to achieve the order what i want to be success.so i was never mind about the negative thoughts in my mind and always keep positive thoughts with me.it was helps me more to be great and success.
  A3G1X3IP2VM4IK   Tue Jan 14 18:15:27 PST 2020   Put yourself in a peaceful environment. Surround yourself with peaceful things. Like, candles, warm water, fruit. Lay down with a heating blanket. Make yourself feel calm. Be direct in what you want to feel. Write down your plan on how to get to that feeling. That way, you can achieve some order in chaos.
  A28QUR0QYD2WI7   Tue Jan 14 18:25:04 PST 2020   Adore chaos as we love to produce order
  APJTLCUG7TU62   Tue Jan 14 20:19:25 PST 2020   I believe that the best way to achieve order from chaos is to decide on a goal and then create systems that channel the chaos in ways that allow progress towards that goal, rather than trying to put a stop to the chaos altogether.
  A1VE6VNQJO0U88   Tue Jan 14 18:15:14 PST 2020   Considering that chaos happens when the majority is angry and uncomfortable, realize they must be helped to be at least more comfortable and then they’ll be more receptive to venting their anger in more reasonable ways. So comfortable means having shelter, warmth, nutrition, and an income, so promised that is coming and set about making it all happen. When people are comfy, things are okay; when they’re not comfy, nothing else matters much– including being civilized. If people don’t have their dependent needs met, then their society implodes. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
  A1CA6ZXKK09ZRI   Tue Jan 14 21:17:05 PST 2020   Understand the sources of problems and meet the demands of the majority.
  ALTRIHXLUK71A   Tue Jan 14 19:29:47 PST 2020   Observe what is out of order/in chaos, then step by step, create rules and regulations to achieve order.
  A2HBS6BMGQWN8K   Tue Jan 14 19:27:39 PST 2020   Wait eternity until the stars go dark and the heat goes out of the universe.
  A2R89RXGEVG05I   Tue Jan 14 19:37:08 PST 2020   To achieve order from chaos you restrict activities to a daily and/or weekly routine.