[Minorcompositions] Emotions Go To Work

[Minor Compositions]

Now available for ordering and/or free download…

*Emotions Go To Work*
Zoe Beloff

Artist book investigating how technology is used to transform feelings 
into capital

Emotions Go To Work is an investigation into how technology is used to 
turn our feelings into valuable assets. One might call it the 
transformation of emotion into capital. It asks what is at stake in our 
relationship with the companions we call smart objects? What does the 
future hold in store for a world where people are treated more and more 
like things, while the billions of gadgets that make up the Internet of 
Things are increasingly anthropomorphized, granted agency?

Spanning an arc of time from the 18th century to 21st century and 
beyond, Emotions Go To Work traces the codification and 
instrumentalization emotional data in ways both playful and serious. It 
considers the role emojis play our mental life and their potential to 
evolve and grow monstrous. It suggests that anthropomorphized 
technological creatures from early cartoons might inspire a utopian 
society. Proposing that the first step to re-wiring our world is to 
picture possibilities in games and in play, in dreams and in far-fetched 
fictions, so that we can begin new conversations between people and things.


Bio: Zoe Beloff is an artist and filmmaker. Her work aims to connect the 
present to past so that it might illuminate the future in new ways. 
Themes include proposals for new forms of community; The Coney Island 
Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926 – 1972 or The Days of 
the Commune staged as series of street performances to new ways about 
thinking about labor in The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff and Emotions 
Go to Work. Zoe presents her work internationally in museums, 
alternative spaces and film festivals. She is a Professor in Media and 
Art at Queens College CUNY.


64 pages, hand printed 5 color Risograph artist book with two pullout 
pages in limited edition of 200 copies, 165 x 235 mm trim size

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=908

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now for 
the special price
of £10.

Release to the book trade April 2019

Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.


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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
& provocations drawing from autonomous politics,
avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.

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