“Laborers of Love/LOL” is a crowdsourcing project that explores how sexuality and desire are mediated through new technologies, specifically new models of global, outsourced labor. The project takes the form of an Internet service that uses anonymous online workers to create “customers” video fantasies. Utilizing Mechanical Turk, an online job engine created by Amazon.com (mturk.com), LOL leverages a global online workforce of workers that are not specific to the sex industry but rather a diverse group of home/computer based workers. In an assembly-line fashion, Mechanical Turk workers collect images and video related to the fantasy from a variety of websites. A real time data visualization is then presented on the website consisting of worker locations (Waco, Texas; Bangalore, India; etc) and IP addresses of the mined content (images and video). This visualization maps the process and “production” of the video fantasy. The final product is a short video mashup, more funny than sexy, where 1970’s experimental cinema meets canned Photoshop filters, and ultimately reflects on how desire and pleasure are represented, fragmented and abstracted through the consumption of online digital media.

Created by Jeff Crouse, Stephanie Rothenberg and Michael Schieben.

ALEXANDRA GORCZYNSKI

| MOE TKACIK

LABORERS OF LOVE  |

|  RAPE-AxE

BEAU SIA  |

|  KAJA CXZY ANDERSEN

K.MILLER//M.SACHS  |

|  KENDRA URDANG

JORDAN DALTON  |

|  TANYA SHILINA-CONTE

NICHOLAS O’BRIEN |

| SARAH KAY

A ROOM OF ONES OWN |

| HENNESSY YOUNGMAN

?STICKY! |

|  ERIK STINSON

STACYANN CHIN  |

|  IRENE & YUN’S TANGO

N.O’BRIEN//LOCRIAN  |

|  ALICIA R. FRASER

JESSICA DELFINO  |

|  1ST WRLD RPST TRNG

GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU  |

1. think of ur crush

2. make a heart with ur hands

3. then kiss ur hands while still making the heart

4. then put ur heart where ur real heart is

5. tomorrow ur crush will ask u out

6. this will only work if you post this 2 ur fav love song

Beautiful Bruises

BY ALEXANDRA GORCZYNSKI

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KATIE MILLER | LEX VAUGHN

LINDSAY BEEBE | R.LORD

ALEXANDRA GORCZYNSKI

TAYISHA BUSAY | LORD WHIMSY

JL COSTES

JIM DRAIN | BJ ANN TAYLOR

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY BJ ANNTAYLOR

Loves Potential Within A Bell Jar Pact

by Liz Rywelski
2010

Loves Potential Within A Bell Jar Pact

Spend time fucking someone who brings you closer to your goals

Spend time fucking someone who brings you closer to your goals

Spend time fucking someone who brings you closer to your goals

Spend time fucking someone who brings you closer to your goals

Our last oceans.

Deep with flesh,

Swells high enough to toss into.

Waves contorting our sump-sized hips.

Red as a bobbing poppy.

A lone bobbing poppy,

Asphyxiated Red.

Sum capsized amount

Revved your motorboat engine

In the sealed garage, as planned.

Two as one, soiled,

Incomplete.

The smell as poignant as preventative Lysol.

Hurricane winds blew through

Flooding out all of the according fumes.

Release deep copper oxygen

Shadow navy swills. Engulf us,

We’d rather become to the bends.

Red as a bobbing poppy.

We were a communist bloated poppy,

Asphyxiated Red.

With two young milk-less breasts

Appointing you to buck-up, and

Do the swimming.

With two young milk-less breasts

Appointing you to buck-up, and

Do the swimming.

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