Graceful Degradation is a Complicated and Expensive Goal (2015)

The precious stone industry’s bottom level serialized YouTube accounts provides the raw material for this transformation of geophysical excrement into visibility. Layers of spinning gemstones are organized into a spectral abstraction of global cryptolabor --- labor that is both ubiquitous and hidden by the massive filtration schemes controlling access and content in digital networks. Sampled clips are sites of unwillingly obscured or concealed work, as well as work that withdraws, hides and camouflages itself.