mosonic – »Fauxtomation«

With »Fauxtomation« you escape with mosonic into the sublime and atmospheric world of DubTechno.

About

Fauxtomation¹ is a combination of »faux« (French for ›false‹) and »automation«. Fauxtomation refers to the process or illusion by which technological systems are presented as automated or controlled by artificial intelligence, when in fact human workers are doing a significant amount of the work in the background.

A typical example: on platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, tasks that appear to be automated - such as recognizing objects in images - are actually performed by humans, who perform small tasks for minimal pay.

The term was coined by author Astra Taylor, among others, to show how tech companies stage progress while human - often poorly paid - work remains hidden.

Fauxtomation criticises the illusion of technological efficiency and raises questions about profit, transparency, working conditions and social responsibility.

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Cover Artwork

For the cover artwork I chose a rendered image out of 7573 rendered Processing images. It’s a co-operation between me, Claude and my computer doing some random calculations. You can download the cover, if you like.

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