Artist: Aaron Koblin

Aaron Koblin created the work ‘the Sheep Market’. The sheep market is a collection of 10.000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s-Mechanical Turk. (a website where you can place chores) Each worker was paid $.02 to draw a sheep facing left. But the ideology of bureaucratized systematized human labour is firmly established and has been maturing rapidly since the industrial revolution. Aaron’s work uses real-world and community generated date to reflect in cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and the systems they create.

Reference: Aaron Koblin - http://www.thesheepmarket.com/ Miranda July - http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

I give this work as an example for the ‘free’ interpretation what you have as a viewer. Draw a sheep is the assignment, so it’s not that free what I mean, but everybody draws a sheep differently. It is a specific task just what Miranda July did with here ‘Learn to Love you More’ project. What I like of these projects it’s the artist creates a movement. The works are a virus, a virus of sheep or assignments. They create a kind of frame and the viewer as to react between the framework. The assignments are very specific, I want to create a way that they are open and the viewer creates something without any framework. Without any assignment it’s hard to invite people to contributed to the work. So I’m going to looking for a middle road.