[Nettime-bold] Human Capital Software Solutions @ Transmediale 03

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Title: Human Capital Software Solutions @ Transmediale 03

> >
> > Human Capital Software Solutions launched its Beta
> > version at Transmediale and is now available for
> > purchase!
> >
> >
> > Ceo :Beatrice Gibson
> > Executive Director: Sejal Chad
> > Executive Technician : Adrian
> > Ward 
> > Executive Sonitician: Mukul Deora
> >
> >
> > Human Capital vers. 0.1.017  is piece of
> > voice [text.sound] composition software, packaged as a training tool
> > for call center agents in India. Part tool part satire, the software
> > parodies the 'communication philosophy' of the burgeoning remote
> > processing industry, namely its concept of a generic 'globalised'
> > identity.
> >
> > At the same time Human Captial attempts to invert the
> > logic of telematic communications structures when appropriated by
> > capital, by allowing, through composition potential, for processes
> > which might frustrate // subvert the mechanisms of modelization and
> > homogeneity.
> >
> > Users construct, from a library of stock phrases //
> > words // and adopted identities, responses to potential client
> > queries.  Teleworkers can then potentially reappropriate and
> > mutate possible identities, disconnecting from capital.  By
> > dragging text sound clips onto a timeline, much like conventional
> > music software, the software hopes to introduce the potential for
> > mixing // morphing // and mutation within an otherwise mono
> > environment, opening up 'fissures in pattern subjectivity'. Ie
> > This sucks but i can fuck with it.
> > Human Capital Software version PUBLIC BETA 0.1.017  is
> > currently viewable at
> >
> > www.humancapitalsoftwaresolutions.com