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You Can Reply to This Message (series)
2008-2009
Performance; Digital Video, 720p HD
Above: Second video in series, 23 min.

Participants were placed in a room with access to text message-enabled cell phones and are dictated instructions written by an anonymous group contracted through a crowdsourcing infrastructure and supplanted with instructions from Darren Wershler’s Tapeworm.

[First video in series, 47 min.]
[List of instructions for first video]

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ctrlv
2008
.pdf
275 pages
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Requested that users of a popular crowdsourcing engine (Amazon Mechanical Turk) submit to me the contents of their computer clipboard at the time of reading the prompt.  The result is 1,000 individual pieces of ephemeral copy&pasted text in the order that they were submitted, ranging from URLs to fragments of personal messages to the full text of a walkthrough for the videogame Final Fantasy XII.

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