Online creation
AMAZON KILLER ELLIOT LEPERS (2014)
As part of Futurs non conformes. #2 Passages à l'acte
From 01 October 2016 to 30 April 2017
Jeu de Paume – Online
Amazon Killer by Elliot Lepers is part of the project “Futurs non conformes. #2 Passages à l’acte” for the Jeu de Paume virtual space.
“Look for a book on Amazon and then buy it in a real bookshop (Browser add-on)”.
Whereas the giant company Amazon aspires to replace every aspect of traditional, bricks and mortar commerce from food to cars, not forgetting books, Amazon Killer subtly hijacks the system by redirecting our book purchases to local bookshops. Amazon Killer, developed by digital activist Eliott Lepers, is an app that lets you use Amazon’s search tool, before it redirects you towards a site where you can reserve a copy in the bookshop of your choice. This add-on simply gets the ISBN number of the book that you are looking at on Amazon and looks it up in the regularly updated ‘Place des Libraires’ database.
Elliot Lepers
Elliot Lepers is a political designer, ecological activist and feminist. « As with the design, the policy must provide solutions to problems, putting users at the center of thought, » he said. Graduated from L’École nationale des Arts Décoratifs, he created a company that imagines new forms of political practices and which employs four people..