Aaron Koblin  
 
ten thousand cents
Ten Thousand Cents    
    "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 are all $100. The work is presented as an interactive/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.
   
 
NYTE
New York Talk Exchange    
   

Visualizations for the New York Talk Exchange, a project by the Senseable City Lab at MIT for the MoMA.
New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of AT&T long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world.

   
 
the sheep market
The Sheep Market    
   

The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Animations of each sheep's creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com

   
 
Flight Patterns
Flight Patterns    
   

Data from the U.S. Federal aviation administration processed to create animations of flight traffic patterns and density.

   
 

 

 

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