The sheep market
@inproceedings{Koblin2009TheSM,
title={The sheep market},
author={Aaron Michael Koblin},
booktitle={C&C '09},
year={2009}
}The Sheep Market, is a web-based artwork that appropriates Amazon's Mechanical Turk system to implicate thousands of workers in the creation of a massive database of drawings. From one simple request, submitted to the MTurk system as a 'HIT' or Human Intelligence Task, workers create their version of "a sheep facing to the left" using simple drawing tools. The artist responsible for each drawing receives a payment of two cents for their labor.
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