- Aug 03, 2022
- 21 min
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Full-HD
Hardly Working (2022)
An ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Category
Country
Austria
Companies
Total Refusal
Kunsthaus Graz
Land Steiermark, department 9 - Culture, Europe, Ext. Relations
Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport
Werkleitz Gesellschaft
European Media Art Platform
Creative Europe Media
A_F_M_ASBtownfolk_02
"The Street Sweeper"
A_F_M_SDslums_02
"The Laundress"
A_M_M_NBXdockworkers_01
"The Carpenter"
A_M_M_VALlaborer_01
"The Stable Hand"
Jacob Banigan
Narrator
