Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, online workers choral effort. With “Bicycle Built for Two Thousand” Aaron Koblin confirms himself as specialist of crowdsourcing based artworks. As Jeff Howe wrote, "crowdsourcing" is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call” (Wired, June 2006). In this case Koblin and Daniel Massey crowdsourced the song “Daisy Bell” using Mechanical Turk, the web service offered by Amazon B2B. The song was split into 12 audio and 6 keyboard tracks. Each turker was played a single syllable or note from the synth version and asked to replicate it ignoring what they were going to contribute toward. Online workers from 71 countries were each paid 6 cents to record their voice.
more 'Bicycle Built for Two Thousand' at Neural.it http://www.neural.it/art/2009/04/bicycle_built_for_two_thousand.phtml Some may remember when Rob Myers in 3/4/07, wrote about another artwork by Aaron called 'The Sheep Market'. "The Sheep Market" by Aaron Koblin is a series of 10,000 simple images of sheep drawn by online workers. Stylistically the sheep range from the indecipherable to the extremely detailed and cute. You can view the sheep on a web site, buy them on stickers, or have them fill your field of vision as part of a gallery installation. They serve as a metaphor for the sharecropping masses of Web 2.0 projects. And their production speaks of the future of art and creative production. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=244 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
