30 Nov 2009

26 Nov 2009

http://postspectacular.com/

Karsten Schmidt from Etapes on Vimeo.



This is probably one of the most important interviews I have seen, it has made me think really hard about my practice.

25 Nov 2009



http://www.tenthousandcents.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.

24 Nov 2009

18 Nov 2009

4 Nov 2009