More Amazon MTurk art: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/02/seed_drawings_visual_emergence_using_mechanical_turk.html
"The project called Seed Drawings is an experiment on visual emergent algorithms (think Cellular Automata, L-systems, swarming, ant colony optimization, and the like), but then applied to the online labor marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk. Each Seed Drawing is an aggregate of many smaller drawings, all produced as copies of one another." I think there's more to say about this kind of project than, as the blog post above puts it: "Next to some beautiful graphics, the project also shows how some people really do not like to do like they were told..." . When I reviewed "The Sheep Market" I found that its stated aims of ethical inquiry (which I didn't read about before reviewing the project) came through in the finished work very clearly: http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=244 But the interaction of machine intelligence and clickworking portrayed by Seed Drawing does need to be made visible and considered. And there is such a thing as seed capital... - Rob. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
