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The Advice of Strangers

I let the internet run my life.

Year
2010
Format
Online participatory project
My role
Creator, producer, host
With
Creative Time
The original voting website for The Advice of Strangers.
The original voting website for The Advice of Strangers.

The premise

For a month, strangers voted on my daily decisions. I followed the results. Thousands of people participated.

How it worked

I posted the questions and documented what happened. People voted on everything from everyday dilemmas to how I spent my time and where I went.

Creative Time supported the project with a grant.

Impact

  • Creative Time's first fully funded digital project
  • Thousands of voters steered a month of my life, from the mundane to the intimate
  • Presented at Art Basel Miami Beach with Creative Time
  • The same year, AOL named me one of 25 Emerging Artists, chosen from more than 9,000 applicants
A video still from the project: on an air mattress in Echo Park Lake.
A video still from the project: on an air mattress in Echo Park Lake.
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