Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Crowdsourcing Readings

When you have such a large collaboration like crowdsourcing projects, you end up with a unique form of art. It becomes this type of congealed, unidentifiable mode of expression that spotlights no one, but resonates with everyone. Take the Johnny Cash tribute for example. In order to make it work, everyone had parameters they had to work within. But they were free to sketch whatever they chose. The participants can look at the final product and feel a sense of pride, and also a sense of sodality.
The main perk of crowdsourcing is the influx of creative ideas. You’ll encounter many concepts that one person couldn’t come up with on their own. However, the caveat is that the saturation of input diminishes authorship. But crowdsourcing is all about collective expression.

I’m a narcissist, so I won’t be doing a lot of crowdsourcing on my own initiative. But it would be stupid of me to ignore the potential benefit crowdsourcing could have on my works.

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