Siri Alexa Cortana (Work Songs) addresses technology, gender, and labor though the emergence of digital voice assistants. Combining scripted scenes, work songs from the textile industry, and conversations between the artist and these technologies, the film explores how the gendered voice figures into our understanding of mechanized labor.
Single channel video, 11:25 seconds, 2018
(clip - full video available upon request)
Public Event, Artists Space, 2018.
Photo: Gustavo Murillo
© Emily Shanahan