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Usually a group of experts in the field of the art curates a museum exhibition but at the Brooklyn Museum curators got an interesting idea. What if a crowd curates the exhibition? Common people evaluate a larger number of the works of art through the Internet and thus particular works will be selected for the exhibition. This way common taste shape the exhibition. The Brooklyn Museum announced that it is looking for photography that captures “the changing face of Brooklyn” and thousands of people got involved and sent their photographs. Then the crowd voted to select photographs for the show. The idea of general public participating in the exhibition process came from the book by New York financial and business columnist James Surowiecki called The Wisdom of Crowds, which says that crowd consisting of diverse types of people is usually wiser than expert individuals. The aim of this exhibition is to find out whether this concept can be applied also to the visual arts. 389 submissions are still online so you can take a look. They were judged by 3,344 people whose job was to rank the images on a scale from “most effective” to “least effective”. Finally 78 photographs were chosen. Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition is in fact a tricky experiment. Just think about it. Who is to say whether the exhibition is good or bad? Is the indicator the number of tickets sold? With art the line between “good” and “bad” is sometimes amazingly thin, if there is some. There is no model to which an artwork could be compared or according to which is could be judged. The evaluation of art is the matter of one´s subjective opinion. Therefore the question here is whether the judgment of group of people or that of individuals is the right one..

related story: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/arts/design/04clic.html?ref=design

by Zuzana Zelenakova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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