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Phantom Captain
dal 17/10/2006 al 24/11/2006

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Heather Kouris



 
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17/10/2006

Phantom Captain

Apexart, New York

The exhibition explores creative collaboration that involves groups of individuals responding to "crowdsourcing" initiatives set forth by artists. The Rise of Crowdsourcing "to describe a new form of corporate outsourcing of labor to armies of amateurs. As the methodology behind websites like Wikipedia, Ebay, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, etc." (Jeff Howe). With projects by 7 artists.


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Art and Crowdsourcing

curated by Andrea Grover

with projects and participation by: Jeff Howe, Peter Edmunds, Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July, Aaron Koblin, Davy Rothbart, Allison Wiese

Phantom Captain explores creative collaboration that involves groups of individuals responding to “crowdsourcing" initiatives set forth by artists. Jeff Howe introduced the term crowdsourcing in his June 2006 Wired Magazine article, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing," to describe a new form of corporate outsourcing of labor to armies of amateurs. As the methodology behind websites like Wikipedia, Ebay, Flickr, Youtube, Blogger, etc., crowdsourcing is becoming common practice in business while its potential is also being harnessed by artists to create communal artworks.

Through assignments, collections, solicited submissions, and even the farming out of creative tasks like drawing and decision making, the artists in Phantom Captain create works of “distributed creativity," employing 10-10,000, geographically dispersed, voluntary collaborators who collect, submit, vote, perform, or otherwise contribute to create discrete, multiple, and ongoing art works. The effect is an exploration of a crowd’s aptitude for creative consensus, rendering something akin to a portrait of contemporary collective unconscious.

Andrea Grover is the Founder of the Aurora Picture Show, a non-profit center for film, video and new media in Houston, Texas.

Programs:
Reading: Wed Nov 8, 6:30pm
Davy Rothbart with special guest Anvil
Lecture: Wed Nov 15, 6:30pm
Jeff Howe on the rise of crowdsourcing

Apexart’s exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by Altria Group, Inc., The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc., The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts.

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