Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Reading Assignment 5: Participative Systems & Crowdsourcing: The Art of a Crowd.

Question # 1: Jacob states "As socially minded artists work to make their projects more inclusionary and bring those usually outside art institutions into their work-through subject matter, non-institutional locations, or actual involvement by nonarts participants-many from the art world audience flee; a substitution rather than expansion of audience occurs." Why do you believe this problem occurs? How would this audience expansion problem be remedied?

Question # 2: Carol Strickland states in her article "Crowdsourcing: The Art of a Crowd" that other drawbacks of crowdsourcing involve "cloudy issues of intellectual property and authorship." For crowdsourcing projects, how important do you believe authorship is? Should the artist who conceived the project get the majority of credit, or should the people who contributed also receive credit as artists?

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