Collaborative Visual Arts

Online art communities like Deviant Art, which give people a place to make and share online art, have already been crowdsourced for business purposes. We want to examine how the net allows artists to collaborate on a single work together -- where a product, traditionally produced by a single artist, is done by the crowd.

We've collected a list of projects that we've heard about which are pushing the boundaries on collaborative art. Help us learn about them and tell us about others to add to the list.

WikiPainting: Anyone can edit a picture: artists collaborate on a never-ending sketch. Read NewAssignment.Net's current coverage.

Aaron Koblin's TheSheepMarket.com. Composed of 10,000 sheep from 10,000 artists, gathered via Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

SwarmSketch. A "collective drawing."

We Feel Fine - this "artwork authored by everyone" is a collaborative database of several million human feelings that is increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has crowdsourced projects through YouTube.

A Manhattan art gallery, Apex Art, held an exhibition last fall titled "Phantom Captain: Art and Crowdsourcing."

Any one of these could turn into profiles, Q&A's or stories of some sort. As we use this space to work on a large feature, here are links to smaller assignments related to the topic of collaborative art.

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher's crowdsourced art/Web project Learning to Love You More. You can begin reporting on this project here.

Andrea Grover is one of the first curators of crowdsourced art. She imagines an art movement that is newly possible due to networked communication. You can report on her work here.