‘the white glove tracking project was created by evan roth and ben engebreth, with the backing of the art-and-technology groups rhizome and eyebeam. web-surfing volunteers were invited to view frames of michael jackson’s legendary performance of ‘billie jean’ on a 1983 television special and pinpoint the location of mj’s white glove.

the glove trackers tackled the job just for fun, finishing the job in 72 hours back in may thanks to a surge of traffic from digg and other sites. the data they produced is now available online and has already been put to some highly creative uses.’ read more

via rhizome | originally from bits