The sheep market
@inproceedings{Koblin2009TheSM, title={The sheep market}, author={Aaron 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.
The inspiration for The Sheep Market project stems…
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