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Osman Khan and Omar Khan, SEEN: Fruits of our Labor, August 08, 2006.
The project asks members of three communities that make up San Jose’s labor needs—Silicon Valley’s tech workers, undocumented service workers and outsourced call center workers—one question: What is the fruit of your labor? Their responses are displayed back to the general public on a 4 8ft. infrared LED screen whose content is visible only through the audience’s personal digital capture devices (cellphone cameras, digital cameras and DV cams etc.). By creating this hidden/mediated spectacle, we knew we could generate the right amount of curiosity and reward…[to encourage the crowd] to partake in its ‘viewing’. Part of the consequence of this engagement was that some people could completely view the work, while others shared or looked over shoulders in efforts to understand what
all the fuss was about. Interestingly, the groups we had surveyed we felt were arguably well equipped to view the work: high tech workers for obvious reasons, and undocumented workers who prefer using mobile phones allowing them the ability to communicate while staying off the grid.
Osman Khan and Omar Khan. SEEN: Fruits of our Labor, August 8, 2006. Acrylic, Infrared LEDs, Custom Electronics, Computer, Wire.
Osman Khan and Omar Khan. SEEN: Fruits of our Labor, August 8, 2006. Acrylic,
Infrared LEDs, Custom Electronics, Computer, Wire.
Osman Khan and Omar Khan. SEEN: Fruits of our Labor, August 8, 2006. Acrylic, Infrared LEDs, Custom Electronics, Computer, Wire.