“Platforms seduce their users into performing the unpaid work of content creation—uploading the texts, photographs, videos, and music that are the raw material of the digital world—while mining their metadata to create new markets for corporate and military surveillance. “Many of the other platforms are quite devious,” she said. “We don’t really know whether your face is being used to train facial-recognition algorithms or something like that.” In the digital economy, free labor tenders a self-replenishing vein of gold for capital’s pickaxe. At fifty-six, Steyerl, who is of German and Japanese descent, has become one of the most revered figures in the mercurial world of contemporary art, with solo exhibitions at the Armory, in New York City, the Serpentine Galleries, in London, and the Academy of Arts, in Berlin. Her work is animated by an anti-capitalist, anti-surveillance sensibility cut by a measured and mischievous sense of humor.” ~Merve Emre Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/hito-steyerls-digital-visions