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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. You can even explore the submitted frames by artistic style ("pointillism," "sketchy," "abstract").

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

Museum 2.0

You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Could I have articulated that at the start? Turns out that I enjoy songs with “extensive vamping.” From experts!