“Echo, Alexa – the speaker – that is an example of an invention that no customer asked for. If we had gone to customers six years ago, seven years ago, whenever it was we put Echo on a drawing board, and we said ‚Look, would you buy a black cylinder that you plug in to the wall in your kitchen, and you can ask it what time it is, set timers, ask it what the weather is, ask it to play music for you’, they would have been like ‛No, I will not buy that!’”

How can we relate to them and can we even take our future back from the hands of the world's wealthiest people? How can we support people fighting for workers' rights and, in a broader perspective, equality and social justice? Amazon is just an example, albeit an extremely powerful and clear one, of what our whole reality may soon look like. Or how it already looks: hidden behind a smooth online store interface and an almost windowless warehouse walls. Dressed in exciting technological metaphors, hiding the exploitation and inequality of wealth, knowledge and influence.

The website you are on has been conceived as a regularly updated and ever-expanding online archive. It collects scattered scraps of information that make up the overall picture of Amazon. Much has already been said and written about it, but there was no single place where you can get to know a wide range of material in this way. 

The content on this site is arranged randomly, just like products in Amazon fulfillment centers. There is no single linear way to browse it – every time you visit this website you discover a new set of information. All materials are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Once you have reached the "Registry" tab, you can download them to your computer for further use, both online and offline.

AMZN.vnlab.org was created in the vnLab Interactive Narratives Studio at the Film School in Łódź, under the supervision of studio managers Katarzyna Boratyn and Krzysztof Pijarski and in close cooperation with Rytm Digital studio (Paweł Brzeziński / Roman Kühl), which developed the graphic design and took care of the programming.

Special thanks:
OZZ Inicjatywa Pracownicza labor union
NZZZ Solidarność Pracowników Amazon Polska labor union
Biennale Warszawa
Jan Zygmuntowski
Krzysztof Pijarski