Document:Q7123
From Rhizome Artbase
Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing website intended for businesses to hire remotely located workers to perform discrete, on-demand tasks. The Sheep Market is a net artwork that tasked thousands of Mechanical Turk workers with drawing a sheep facing to the left in exchange for two cents. The result is a massive database of drawings displayed in a visualization on the project website. Visitors can view animations of the drawing process of each sheep and read placards with data culled from the project such as the average time spent drawing a sheep, number of drawings rejected, and average wage earned by each anonymous worker.