According to the article, Crowdsourcing: The art of a crowd, by Carol Strickland, crowdsourcing
is “eliminating the boundaries between artist and audience.” On one hand, this
makes art more personable and accessible to the common people, but at the same
time, do people really want to see some of this random stuff? For example, “take
a picture of your parents kissing.” Yet, people are contributing, so clearly
people do want to be involved, why do these seemingly random assignments
interest others? Why as humans are we interested in seeing pictures/reading
stories about some “insignificant” details of others’ lives?
In “Participative Systems” in Rethinking Curating, the author mentions the question of “whether
the participants are the audience,
and who is watching—ultimately questioning whether this type of art shares an audience
with fine art at all.” Which relates back to my other question, before I asked
why do we care, but in this case, who is caring? Is it the traditional audience
still or is it a new audience? Is there an overlap? Do you have to know anything
about art to be part of the audience?
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