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Tuesday 10 April 2007

Artful clickfarming.

Turking meets art meets politics in Aaron Koblin’s online work The Sheep Market.

Koblin used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk webservice to recruit 10,000 workers for a simple task — to each submit a drawing of a ’sheep facing left’. All sheep can be viewed on the website, and what a diverse flock they are: from fluffy and well-proportioned, to stick-legged and wobbly.

The work is open to critical interpretation or simple woolly appreciation. You can even purchase (while stocks last) sets of stickers of your favourite sheep.

Posted by Anne-Fay | Tags: animals, net.art, sheep, turking

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