Artwork
📍 Kulturhaus Helferei
Meta Office
MetaOffice
What we call artificial “intelligence” is often manufactured by routine clicks of countless workers. Hidden behind screens, they operate the digital production line of a labeling industry. Their services seem automated but are deeply human. Paid cents per task, they are the unseen workforce behind digital automation. «Meta Office» displays their office spaces, allowing us a voyeuristic gaze into intimate interiors – where personal needs bend to those of work. Photo by photo, workers share meaningful objects, revealing repetitive patterns: desktops, keyboards, office chairs, headphones, and desk fans meet bedrooms, kitchens, beds, and refrigerators. Click by click, they expand our understanding of their workspaces. Office spaces that impose themselves, transforming original surroundings into working environments that don't resemble corporate design, yet are underpinned by global corporate influence. Individualized, continuously expanding office spaces whose existence – like that of their workers – remains concealed behind countless generic User-IDs.

