On Hypercompliance

by Jen GravesAn installation shot of General Intellect at Morningside Academy in October 2015. Courtesy of Aktionsart
There's a fascinating ongoing discussion about the art project General Intellect on the Aktionsart blog, and it hinges on a term I'm only starting to understand: hypercompliance.
General Intellect is a work of art that uses the ethically ambiguous rules of an online Amazon workforce called Mechanical Turk in order to expose that ethical ambiguity. The art—videos by the work