– This is a participation for Tomorrows' Open Call, SGT, 2017 –
Google Island is an attempt to design a dystopian future, which is presented through a series of illustrations.
The project is a comment on the present relationship between mobility and employment and its predicted connection to digital representation of each individual in social media platforms.
Tiny Manifesto
" Today, all the aspects of our identity can be outlined by our presence and behavior in social and professional networks, our digital imprints and traces. Therefore, the companies that manipulate this large amount of data can use them in order to produce interactions between them and real life. Focusing on the emerging, forced or not, mobility of groups (employees, immigrants, refugees, students), already partially stored in web identity showcases, we can assume a new purpose for the information managing platforms by gathering all of them in one application. This application aims to handle all the relocating groups and individuals IRL according to their digital identities in order to deregulate and accelerate all the mobility associated procedures. In this project, Google adds this new weapon in its armory and takes charge of issues that existing governments and organizations can’t handle. We can imagine the real application of this people-managing platform in the form of an island-passage, that accumulates the suitable infrastructures, located in the busy Mediterranean Sea. Google Island receives an input of candidates and provides personality and skill coaching according to their profiles and the needs of market. Finally, depending on the evaluation of the last stage, candidates are being redirected or refouled. The Google upgraded employees become accepted by the collaborating companies through an automatically accelerated procedure, skipping all the bureaucratic fuss related with mobility nowadays. "
The illustrations compose a narration in the order of Ad – Arrival – Recognition – Redirection.
Collaborator : Chatzigrigoriou Panagiotis