Thomas grew up in Northern California where he fell in love with music and photography while going to punk shows and shooting skate photos. He photography in college, which may or may not qualify him to host an art podcast. When he's not working on Art Uncovered, Thomas works as photographer, retoucher, and audio editor and also plays guitar in the band Sleepies. He lives in Queens, New York, for now.
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Dark Content
Projection, Whitechapel Gallery, London This Week: Artists Franco and Eva Mattes discuss their latest project, Dark Content. The project explores the world of content moderators, the invisible work force of actual human beings responsible for keeping graphic, offensive, and violent videos and images out of social media and search results. Google, Facebook, Twitter --- really almost any social platform you can think of ---- employs moderators, yet the work they do, and the workers themselves, are totally invisible to the general public. For Dark Content Franco and Eva conducted a series of anonymous interviews with moderators and turned their words into animated short videos. These videos are only visible on the Dark Net, a part of the Internet that allows for total anonymity and must be accessed through a special browser called Tor. Playlist 00:00 - BTR Today 00:46 - Franco Mattes 03:23 - Dark Content 05:45 - Content Moderators 07:46 - Working at McDonalds 09:01 - Online and Offline 10:44 - Video Avatars 13:53 - Dark Net 16:16 - Morality and Politics 20:07 - Cultural Power 26:00 - Finish