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<p>Now available for ordering and/or free download… <br>
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<b>Emotions Go To Work</b><br>
Zoe Beloff<br>
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Artist book investigating how technology is used to transform
feelings into capital<br>
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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? <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=908">http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=908</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now
for the special price <br>
of £10.<br>
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Release to the book trade April 2019<br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port
Watson<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info">http://www.minorcompositions.info</a>
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