This site is a project to sketch the world’s collective conscious. What it does is to randomly choose one weekly popular search topic, and to allows users to sketch one continuous line, which adds up to what other users have already sketched, so the drawing builds up thanks to the contribution of all users.
Interestingly, once you’ve used up your drawing line, the system randomly chooses other lines drawn by users that visited the site before you, and you can regulate it’s color (in grayscale), so that you can continue to build this collective map of internet consciousness and mass behavior. Interestingly, users can watch an animation on the progress of the sketch in order to see what where the first contributions were and how the sketch has progressed during the week it was being drawn. The site was developed as a part of a University project, and thus the statistics on the origin of the people that have contributed to the sketching project are profuse, as is the directory of links to similar projects in the web.
SwarmSketch.com In Their Own Words
“SwarmSketch is an ongoing online canvas that explores the possibilities of distributed design by the masses. Each week it randomly chooses a popular search term which becomes the sketch subject for the week. In this way, the collective is sketching what the collective thought was important each week. A new sketch begins after one week, or after the previous sketch reaches one thousand lines, whichever comes first”.
Why SwarmSketch.com It Might Be A Killer
If you are fond of doodling, this could be a great site for you, plus a great source of observation and study on behavior tendencies and art perception, as it is very clear that images have a sort of life of their own, and what one person figures to be the representation of a random search term is not what others think it is.
Some Questions About SwarmSketch.com
Since this site belongs to a research project, I am sure lots of it’s visitors would find it profiting to read on the project guidelines and what it is trying to figure out or prove. Can they consider giving some background literature so that the project contributors can gain some insight in regards to it? 
