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AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2015295Once again the Guggenheim – this time that of Bilbao – used crowdsourcing for one of its initiatives. The project used photographs taken by visitors, enthusiasts or citizens to create a large photograph collage in the institution’s premises.This collage, consisting of more than 600 photographs selected from among the more than 1,000 received and measuring 5 x 2.5 metros, was given the same title as the exhibition then running, Una Visión Más Amplia / A Bigger Picture206 by the artist David Hockney. It was displayed on the Gran Vía in Bilbao from 20 July to 20 August 2012 and was intended to emulate Hockney’s famous photography collages – which the artist calls joiners – that recreate certain settings by superimposing photographs taken from different perspectives.The artists Alfredo Zubiaur and Mireya Martín selected and composed the installation after Hockney, based on photographs received through the social media – which therefore came from all over the world, as participation spread globally through these networks.In return, on 23 July a draw was held before a notary for three Sony Reader Wi-Fi PRS-T1 eBooks among all the social network userswho had submitted their photographs. The winners were announced through the website and through the museum’s Facebook, Flickr and Twitter profiles.An interesting project that is using collaborative and open tools is Montenoso207 in Vigo. The main purpose is to facilitate the building andsurvival of common knowledge and it has set up an online platform with resources such as expanded mapping, a semantic wiki, a blog with posts on philosophy or politics, and artistic installations.The latter, specifically the piece entitled Xeografías do mancomún, were part of the Veraneantes (Summer folk) exhibition held atthe MARCO208 in Vigo between October 2013 and June 2014. This group show focused on establishing a link with the art and the society of the area, enhancing appreciation of local culture. Montenoso’s project sets out to materialise various stories built collectively following the visit to communities of neighbouring areas of Argozón, Ombre, Vilamateo-Torres, Guillade and Mouriscados in texts, games, audios and videos.This Galician project received a Mention of Honour in the Digital Communities section of the prestigious Ars Prix Electronica 2014 (Austria) and was a finalist at the DocS.21 Documentary Digital Narrative Festival.In April 2014 the Fundación Teléfonica opened the first Instagramers Gallery209 in Europe. The various shows consist of photographs takenwith smartphones and posted on the social network Instagram, and selected by a group of experts. The project was coordinated by Philippe González and Jorge Martínez, founders of the Instagramers Gallery, which opened its first premises in Miami in 2013.The first show featured 500 photographs grouped into three thematic sections: the Insta-5. Crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and crowdcurating