When one experiences participatory art, they may not know who created it or when, yet there are usually strong clues that can show when a piece of art is a collaborative effort as opposed to individually produced. Art that has been crafted by multiple people usually takes on forms that the initial artist likely wouldn't have been able to think of on their own. Of course, there are millions of works of art that have been beautifully built by just one person, however working with a team (as people do in participatory art) allows for endless new possibilities to become a collaborative reality.
Modern technologies have made participatory art a far easier task to accomplish, as projects can be worked on by many peoples from anywhere in the world who all have a different creative style. In addition, many young artists who don't necessarily have the means to travel around the world to find collaborators can simply go online and post to a forum to find many people with similar interests. Modern participatory art (such as MadV's YouTube project) would have been possible twenty years ago, yet there would have been far fewer contributors, and that type of art's venue was not around at that point in time. The age of the internet is a far more collaborative era than any other before as it has opened new avenues for art to be worked on and interpreted by anyone with access to a computer.
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