stuff / research for bradford - Aaron Koblin

[Data Visualisation]
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Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/info.html
Using 'mechanical turk': https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Mechanical Turk, the webservice by Amazon that allow software developers to coordinate users that execute tasks which computers cannot be able to complete. Merchanical Turk offers different forms of crowd-sourcing specifically where the people are participating really don’t having any context of the overall project that they are building.

The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left."

http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

2,088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey. 
http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html



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