The Qualified Life

At the exhibition from October 20, 2017 to January 28, 2018 

»The Qualified Life« is an interactive installation that imagines the future of the workplace as a fully automated and gamified system that entrusts algorithms with determining the qualifications of employment.

The player is introduced to Taylor Health, an innovation start-up looking to recruit top talent, and must win a series of challenging and bizarre games in order to become employed at the company.

»The Qualified Life« offers a humorous critique of the post-industrial Taylorist-Fordist »always on« culture of productivity and efficiency that destroys the 40-hour workweek. Through the game-like experience, the player develops an understanding of the relationship between ergonomics and corporate wellness as forms of organizational science and social control. How do we disguise the leveraging and monetizing of a workforce into something fun? When do technological solutions turn into problems?

In cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude