The sheep market

  • Authors:
  • Aaron Michael Koblin

  • Affiliations:
  • Aaron Koblin, San Francisco, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.