June 23, 2008
Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum
Everyone’s a curator at the Brooklyn Museum’s Click! exhibition. Last March, the museum invited photographers to submit one photo that addressed the theme of "Changing Faces of Brooklyn." Inspired by James Surowiecki’s book The Wisdom of Crowds, organizers uploaded the 389 responses to the museum’s website for the general public to evaluate.
Each photograph was displayed without artist attribution and at random for each evaluator, and artists were unable to forward links of individual submissions to friends and family. The process yielded 400,000 individual responses, and starting Friday the photographs will be installed at the Brooklyn Museum “according to their relative ranking by the crowd, enabling visitors to see how different groups within the crowd evaluated the same works.” As these sample photographs suggest, mob rule is looking pretty good.
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Oh nice, thats the one building on 3rd ave across from Issue Project Room.
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I was under the impression that they weren't revealing the works chosen until the day of the show? At least that's what the show's curator has stated on the Click! blog. I find it odd that some of the selected photos have already been released to the public, here and in the New York Daily News this morning, being that there is supposed to be no public unveiling of the selected photographs until the show itself...
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Maybe they felt they had to release a few photos so SOMEONE would show up to the exhibit, as I was personally terrified, after having given scores to over 100 photos when the judging was still going on, that the entire show was going to be filled with snapshots of Coney, sad solo portraits of hipsters lurking in alleyways, and parents taking photos of their stroller-beasts romping in fenced-in yards.
Personally, I'm now excited to see the exhibit. Probably just a last-minute change in marketing strategy to get a turnout on Friday.