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  • ‘”Ten Thousand Cents” is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, “crowdsourcing,” “virtual economies,” and digital reproduction.’
    (sources: Twitter user @chronicbabe (jenni prokopy))

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WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2010-06-15

“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-5). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.

This week’s show was “tragically” cut short by unscheduled scheduled maintenance. That is, Northwestern’s Facilities Management folks shut the power down to the entire building where WNUR’s studios are housed without telling me (or University Police, who found out after the alarms went off too.)  Of course it’s not tragic, but it did seem like it was turning into an interesting show.  And if you’ve ever been hesitant to listen because 2 and a half hours is too long, then here’s your chance…

complete program (35 MB, 38 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

Bulgarian Singer: “Vetar Vee” – A Harvest, A Shepherd, A Bride (Nonesuch)
Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and the Statler Brothers: “Daddy Sang Bass” – The Essential Johnny Cash (Columbia)
Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee: “A Hard Day’s Night” – Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee in Stockholm 1966 (Columbia (France))
Kalyi Jag: “Cavity (Oral Bass) Improvisation” – Black Fire (Hungaraton)
Lee Dorsey: “Yes We Can Can” – Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk and Soul (Soul Jazz)
Sly & the Family Stone: “Color Me True” – Dance to the Music (Sony)
Phyllis Dillon: “Woman of the Ghetto” – 100% Dynamite (Soul Jazz)
Johnny Taylor: “Watermelon Man” – Wanted One Soul Singer (Atlantic)
Dennis González: “Sangaredi” – Renegade Spirits (Furthermore)
Alèmayèhu Eshèté: “Tènagèri” – Éthiopiques 22: More Vintage! (Buda Musique)
Lecuona Cuban Boys: “Mambo De Jaruco” – Congas & Rumbas from the Unforgettable Band (Yoyo Music)
Elis Regina: “Se Você Pensa” – Elis Regina in London (Philips)
Quarteto Em Cy & Tamba Trio: “Se Você Pensar” – Som Definitivo (Forma)

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