Sol Lewitt; Custom Software + Mechanical Turk
From Rhizome Artbase
2008
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The artist programmed software to recreate a Sol Lewitt wall drawing and instructed Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to create the same drawing. The drawings made by the software and the drawings made by the crowdsourced workers are presented alongside each other in a grid.
2021
Custom software recreates a Sol LeWitt drawing. The software also posts instructions on Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk. Human workers execute the drawings online based on the instructions. The workers are paid 5¢ for each drawing. The software then assembles the Mechanical Turk drawings in a grid. The software drawings and the Mechancial Turk drawings are presented side by side.
24 June 2009
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