Back-yard

2026

single channel video(4K), color, sound(stereo)

21 min 40 sec

Testimonies: Michael, Sussam, and Emma

In Back-yard, the artist presents the daily life of AI trainers in its entirety through realistic scenes, without any filtering. The complete narrative of how they find work, what tasks they perform, and how their work is evaluated and compensated is delivered alongside their actual voices and recordings of their operational screens. Furthermore, the artist constructs the video by blending fragments of thoughts that arose while observing the AI trainers' daily routines with online-based found footage. Through this process, the artist's screen conveys a comprehensive "impression" surrounding the AI trainers and the overarching structure of the AI industry.

Excerpt from Obsessively Realistic and Chronically Repetitive, Nevertheless, written by Kim Min-kyung, Curator at ACAM