The first digital artist I went and researched was the work of Aaron Koblin, who’s digital work is largely based around audience interaction, through anonymously contributing to a collective project. 

I feel his work is a fun and engaging, a good example as to how a collective group of people can be directed to work towards the same outcome. I feel his work relates strongly the three main components of the frequency theme of LIBERATION.

– Knowledge Sharing: Everyone contributing to his collective projects contribute their own working method, style or ideas.

– The Enhanced Imagination: Through the easy use digital tools, contributors to his projects are able to put their ideas out there. Also working towards a collective outcome/product.

– The liberation of the Digital Human: Other aspects of his projects relate to the physical real world. his latest project makes use of an interactive mesh that hangs in the sky, to which spectators can influence in a spectacular display of colours through touch (through the use of a touch screen phone).

The main projects I wish to pull inspiration from:

– Ten Thousand Cents: 10000 individual artists anonymously worked on an individual sector of the $100 bill, with each artist being paid 1 cent. Over the duration of the project all sections of the $100 bill were drawn in a number of different ways, eventually leading to the completion of the project. (http://www.tenthousandcents.com/)

– The Sheep Market: Focused on the creation of 10,000 individual sheep by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid 2 cents to draw a sheep facing to the left. This project again focused around the anonymity of its contributors. The required 10,000 sheep were collected in 40 days, with the project being accessed through 7599 unique IP addresses. (http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/thesheepmarket/index.html)

– This Exquisite Forest: The project is one that I find extremely fascinating. It follows the same process of previous projects that focus on the anonymous contribution of hundreds of people, for the creation and competition of the project. However this project does not simply collect the contributions of its users, it collects them for others to develop them further. The project is a collective animation at heart, with each user contributing the next frame of the animation. The end result in extremely interesting to watch, as your constantly wondering what the animation will flow into next. (http://www.exquisiteforest.com/)

– Michael