I Agree To The Terms is a new online performance being developed by The Builders.
Association in collaboration with a community of “microworkers,” or “MTurk workers,” who train the algorithms that shape our online experience.
MTurk workers earn pennies-per-click in a vast, unregulated industry. Their assignments are repetitive, boring, maddening, and sometimes disturbing.
In this 30-45 minute encounter, Builders collaborators Moe Angelos and David Pence will be your guides, sending each audience member to a room to meet a worker. Together, they will perform microtasks and share stories before coming back to the group for a final encounter.
I Agree To The Terms is an opportunity to connect with an invisible online labor force, and to feature the “humans in the loop” of our everyday virtual encounters.
I Agree To The Terms is co-commissioned by BAM and the Onassis Foundation, and presented by NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Friday, March 25 – Sunday, April 3, 2022
