• DOI:10.1145/1640233.1640348
• Corpus ID: 20609292

The sheep market

@inproceedings{Koblin2009TheSM,
  title={The sheep market},
  author={Aaron Koblin},
  booktitle={C\&C '09},
  year={2009}
}

• Aaron Koblin
• Published in C&C '09 26 October 2009
• Art

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.
The inspiration for The Sheep Market project stems from the urge to cast a light on the human role of creativity expressed by workers in the system, while explicitly calling attention to the massive and insignificant role each plays as part of a whole.
The project will be presented at the Creativity and Cognition Conference as a large projection of each sheep's animated creation process as drawn by the original artist.