Eva and Franco Mattes

Dark Content, 2015

Eva and Franco Mattes' latest work Dark Content looks behind the surface of the clean, family friendly platforms we spend more and more of our online time on. It's not bots who keep these platforms clean, but underpaid workers in Bulgaria or on the Philippines. The artist couple's interviews with some of these so called content moderators who weed out content considered offending or shocking are the basis of Dark Content. The video series – containing no shocking images itself – is accessible only on the darknet, considered a counterpart to the increasingly controlled mainstream web.

Artwork: http://5cqzpj5d6ljxqsj7.onion (only accessible with Tor-Browser)
Artist: http://0100101110101101.org