curatr.org - Crowdsourcing, Humand Based Computing and Art
Presentation-Notes for the opening on Dec 13, 2008 at lohringer13/laden, Munich
- The Turk or Automaton Chess Player constructed in the late 18th century by Wolfgang von Kempelen: Machine from outside, person inside
- Amazon Mechanical Turk: Crowdsourcing marketplace by Amazon since 2005
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Human Based Computation:
"In these programs, the computer is no longer an agent of its user, but instead, a coordinator aggregating efforts of many human evaluators"
Examples: reCaptcha
(using humans to digitize books, 440 Mio. Words so far) and Games with a purpose
(get humans to solve tasks by using games) by Luis von Ahn
- Interactive Evolutionary Computation:Blind Watchmaker Program and Media-Installation Galapagos (1997) by Karl Sims
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Crowdsourcing: Coined by
Wired-Article 2006.
- First Crowdsourcing Art Exhibit: "Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing" 2006 at apexart NYC by Andrea Grover:
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Art Using Amazon Mechanical Turk:
- Aaron Koblin's The Sheep Market (2006) andThe Ten Thousend Cents (2008)
- Xtine Burrough's Mechanical Olympics (2008)
- Commercial Uses of Crowdsourcing include Innocentive and BlueServo/Virtual Texas Deputy
- New ways of Outsourcing: "The World is flat" by Thomas L. Friedman (2005), "The 4 Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferris (2007)