看不清楚 (Can’t See Clearly)

“看不清楚 Can’t see clearly” is poetry written by mechanical tukers consisting uniquely of Chinese words that are blacklisted in search engines. The workers were asked to create poetry using a list of these words given to them, as a form of protest against search engine censorship. The results explore the difference between censorship in in the physical world (printed copies of poems) vs. the digital world (digital text).
The incarnation at Art Hack Day starts a series of self-sustaining online protests. In a continuation of the work, the poems will be hosted on a website that will add job postings to Mechanical Turk when donations are received or ad revenue is made, thereby creating more poetry which in turn brings more visitors and visibility: a virtuous cycle to combat censorship.