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“A Sequence of Lines” and “A Sequence of circles”, by Clement Valla

February 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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“A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing – trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves – kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.”

“A Sequence of Circles Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing – trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves – kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.”

A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals (and also “A Sequence of Circles”, note by Socks) was first created as a tool to be used in conjunction with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk – an online labor market. Mechanical Turk workers were paid 2 cents to trace a line.

Via: Today and Tomorrow

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