The Future of Work (2016) is a publication by Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez).
Anxious to Make is the collaborative practice of Liat Berdugo and Emily Martinez, two commissioning bodies. Our focus is on the so-called "sharing economy" and the contemporary artist's "anxiety to make" in the accelerationist, neoliberal economic landscape. While Anxious to Make’s physical existence takes many shifting forms, it often manifests as series of video commissions, downloads, online generators, workshops, net art interventions, and sweepstakes. Anxious to Make believes in absurdist extremes as a way to examine contemporary realities. Our work has appeared recently in EMMEDIA (Calgary, CA), Transmediale (Berlin, DE), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), MoMA PS1 (New York), V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media (Rotterdam, NL), and The Luminary (St. Louis, MO). More at anxioustomake.ga.
Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator whose work—which focuses on embodiment and digitality, archive theory, and new economies—interweaves video, writing, performance, and computer programming to form a considerate and critical lens on digital culture. Berdugo has been exhibited in galleries and festivals internationally, and she collaborates widely with individuals and archives. She is the Net Art and Special Programs Curator curator for Print Screen; co-founder and curator of the Bay Area’s Living Room Light Exchange; co-founder and curator of World Wide West. Her writing appears in Rhizome, Temporary Art Review, HZ Journal, and others. Berdugo received an MFA from RISD and a BA from Brown University. She is currently an assistant professor of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. More at liatberdugo.com.
Emily Martinez is an artist working with digital and networked media. Her recent practice and research interests examine the relationship between media, memory, and catastrophe; post-representational forms of subjectivity, emancipatory practices, and the digital archive. Martinez currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. More at http://somethingnothing.me.
Stacy Elaine Dacheux (illustrator) has work featured in the Los Angeles Times, presented at Cinefamily, and published in The Rumpus. Her interviews can be found in FLAUNT, PAPER, BUST, The Awl, Ms., and Los Angeles Review of Books. Most recently, she appeared on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang!. More at www.stacyelaine.com.
Tara Shi (illustrator) is designer and organizer based in Northern California. She is the co-founder of This Will Take Time, a non-profit organization dedicated to long-term projects in land-use, arts and education in Point Area, CA; co-founder of Disk Cactus, an art and technology studio based in Oakland, CA; and co-founder and co-curator of World Wide West, and annual art + technology summit in California. She spends a good deal of time digging. More at http://unknownunknown.net/
VoiceOverPete is a spokesman-for-hire fromFiverr.com, a website hosting a global, online marketplace for digital tasks and services, beginning at a cost of $5 per gig.