Tag: CROWDSOURCING
Artists Eva and Franco Mattes have just launched a new project crowdsourcing a massive body of performance video work. There are several online services where you can pay people to do things on camera. Some of them aren’t even erotic. And now, it’s art. For project BEFNOED, the creative duo pays webcam workers to perform specific actions. The “Balaklava Snacks” series […]
To create the animations you see above, the design house Moniker created instructions for drawing each frame, then let visitors to Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum draw them themselves. Some frames had strict, specific instructions — “Connect all dots to all dots. Use straight lines.” — others were more ambiguous and open to interpretation. The process creates […]
Absorb the cycling know-how of an entire city with this crowdsourced map from the New York Times, which allows anyone to add ten words of wisdom to any location in the five boroughs. A few choice cuts –Maris from Park Slope says Clinton St. is a better route to the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges than Smith, Erich […]
Carly Rae Jepsen appears to be taking a page out of Rivers Cuomo’s book, asking her fans to decide the lyrics to her new song in a series of online polls. Unfortunately (but not surprisingly), what could have been a challenging, forward-thinking project is actually fairly sterile, as Jepsen and the poll’s sponsors–American Idol and Coca-Cola–are […]
