Mechanical Turk Art

Yesterday’s Pitt Law talk by JZ — Jonathan Zittrain — opened up the art possibilities of Mechanical Turker Nation.  All those brains working for so cheaply, there has got to be a major way to stream that into something beautiful and powerful.

There are a few crowdsourced art projects out there already.  The Ten Thousand Cent One Hundred Dollar Bill:

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The Sheep Market:

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And my favorite, The Faces of Mechanical Turk:

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