Digital Work





# What?



From 1st of March till 30th I produced files

working for one hour each day. 

The file consists of one or two statements

wich will be copied into it again and again

until one hour has passed. The pasting happened

by pressing Strg+V and Enter during that hour.





# The statements



The statements are thoughts about the status 

of digital work and general reflections on

the use of computers within a production-

environment. It turns out that creativity is

the main myth of the digital age, while most

digital work is repetetive (although it is 

complex). Further ideas You'll get when

directly browsing an reading the files 1.txt -

25.txt.





# Live action



On 29th I did the copy&paste-work at the "Shop 

For Nothing", a small off-space in Leipzig.

I worked for 5 hours while people were around

watching the situation or talking. You can have

a look to images in the DOCU folder 1.jpg - 7.jpg 

or start a 2 minute video by pointing to 

digitalwork.ram (realvideo). 





# Further material



Within the mail-folder You'll find my e-mail exchange 

on the digital work topic during march 2001.



Within 30 days I've produced 16,1 Mb (16.933.856 Bytes)

on different computers.











francis