Crowdsoursing discussion questions

(1) In the article Crowdsourcing: The art of a crowd,  Carol Strickland maintains that crowdsourcing

"erases the line between artist and audience".   Including the audience to this degree may put the final project at risk to irreverent or poor quality submissions.  In this artform, should a certain amount of screening be done with submissions or does that subtract from the origional purpose of crowdsoursing?

Crowdsourcing

For my conceptual crowdsourcing project I wanted to exploit the world wide accessability of the internet to create a collection of artwork from all over the world. In addition to the collection this project would also contain multiple murals put together by thousands of participants.  Participants would create a small section of the mural through a program similar to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop that would be available for free on the website.  When put together, these murals would create a multi-layered gallery around the hard drive. Finally, this gallery would be encapsulated and launched into space on a calculated safe trajectory that would be safe from collisions with space debris. The purpose of this gallery is to preserve for as long as possible the art and creative history of our planet, which in the grand scheme of the universe live extremely short lives.

Crowd sourcing participation

(1)  Dear Photograph

Dear Photograph, 

This picture was taken when my girlfriend first got her car.  Now her car is slowly dying part by part and it is time for a replacement.  Thanks for many miles traveled,

Aaron

(2) A Man With a Movie Camera

http://dziga.perrybard.net/contributions/show/4017 

For this submission I recreated some of the opening scenes to A Man With a Movie Camera. Unfortunately there were some technical difficulties with uploading and the video is upside down.

(3) Young Me Now Me

The young me picture is of me and my sister hiking to Vernal Falls in Yosemite in 1999.  Last summer we visited Yosemite again and recreated the picture.

Stephen Beck Illuminated Music

Stephen Beck reenactment from Aaron Beck on Vimeo.
http://www.ubu.com/film/beck_illuminated.html

 Stephen Beck and Warner Jepson's Illuminated music is an abstract art video that features moving lines and shapes that constantly change color and texture.  These are animated to various synthetic sounds that are also constantly morphing along with the shapes.  To recreate the shapes I filmed various lights shapes and textures and then used after effects to manipulate the video clips to resemble Beck's shapes on a black background.  I love the psychedelic quality of the original, so I incorporated that trait into my interpretation, as well as synchronizing the animation to Jepson's music.