The Sheep Market

24 sep 2008

Artist Aaron Koblin’s phalanx of 10,000 sheep, all drawn by random strangers through Amazon’s task-distribution mechanism The Mechanical Turk raises questions about the emergence of new labor systems in the information age -and makes you smile.


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Aaron Koblin is one of the hottest artists around, focusing
on the creation and visualization of human systems. His
work ranges from the latest Radiohead music video to data
visualizations of flight patterns.