Documentation video 




The hand has been a symbol of divine creation, power, and agency, shaping the world around us. Yet, as AI ascends, there is an ongoing tension between human agency and machine reliance, while the hands that sustain it remain hidden in the shadows.

In AI’s attempts to replicate hands, they are distorted, fragmented, and multiplied, unable to fully capture the mechanics of human autonomy; creating anomalies that expose both it’s presence in images and reliance on human recources.  

This installation speaks to the invisible human resource farms that fuel AI: anonymous hands whose clickwork tiresly power the digital ecosystem we celebrate with annotated data. Their undervalued labor is reflected in the distorted hands that signal AI’s need for Human Intelligence.

The work exposes the fractured reality of those whose hands are absorbed by the machine, discarded once their data is consumed, revealing a deeper struggle to grasp one another’s reality in the digital age.


    [Accompanying essay ’Handwerker; a human resource farm’ on request ︎]