If you were in the crowd at Ignite NYC III last Monday night, you would have heard Jen Bekman's talk about why "crowdsourcing is ruining everything." Well, maybe not everything. Last Thursday Jen tried an experiment. What would happen if she asked her 20x200 twitter followers to recommend an artist they would like to see on 20x200? Which artists would they recommend? How far and how quickly would the tweet spread?

The responses came in fast and furious. We're thrilled to now know which artists you're hankering for. Here is a run down of how it all went down:

Last Thursday morning, Jen tweets, "Crowd-sourced curation alert: Name an artist/photog who you'd love to see on our site. #20x200".

@kathleenlosche is the first to reply. She recommends Lisa Solomon, Aurora Robson, Rachel Salomon, and Catherine Ryan.

Charlie's Piece by Rachel Salomon

Minutes later, @its_amber chimes in with Matt Furie and Clare Grill. Two more great suggestions.

Secrets, 2007, by Clare Grill

Very quickly, the retweeting (RTs) began! @artcity, Mary Louise Schumacher, the art & architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jumps in and retweets before offering her own suggestion--the photographic duo of J. Shimon and J. Lindemann.

@SarahM, Sarah Milstein of TweetReport, quickly picks up the 20x200 tweet and passes along word of crowd-curated art to the wider twitter-verse.

@ntmce, Nion McEvoy, CEO of Chronicle Books, owner of SPIN magazine, and a fellow panelist of Jen's at SXSW, RTs and spreads the word even further.

Barry Hoggard, @bhoggard of ArtCal, offers a vote for photographer Meredith Allen.

8.02.06, 2006, by Meredith Allen

@MorenoM is the first to respond by suggesting himself. (You can always apply to Hey, Hot Shot!)

@whileseated2 aka Michael David Murphy--photographer and blogger extraordinaire--of 2point8 and UNphotographable, offers four fabulous suggestions:Julie Mehretu, Tacita Dean, Mark Steinmetz, and Mark Alor Powell.

Studia II, 2004, by Julie Mehretu

Florida-based photographer John Loomis, @jlpfl, adds a vote for Matt Black and Andres Gonzalez.

Brother and sister play near their home. Teviston, California, by Matt Black

The expert eye behind Modern Art Notes, @TylerGreenDC, piques our fancy with the mention of Kathleen Schafer.

Image by Kathleen Shafer

Gary Dauphin, @ebogjonson, spots the tweet and suggests Carolyn Castano. @felixsalmon, blogger and journalist for Portfolio likes the photojournalism of Sebastian Meyer.

Image by Sebastian Meyer

@luxlotus, who we know as Lauren Cerand, part of the JB family, offers Wanda Ewing and Caroline Falby to the growing list.

Former JB intern @peterzimmerman, current intern for Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City (a SXSW co-panelist on Curating the Crowdsourced World) gives a shout out to Aline Smithson and Amy Stein.

Watering Hole by Amy Stein

@edlynne names Erwin Olaf, Fred Muram, Kanako Sasaki, Asako Narahashi, and Jamie Campbell.

Image by Asako Narahashi

@gokari recommends Marc Johns, Ryan Hancock, John Counts, Douglas Wilson, and William Hundley.

Image by Douglas Wilson

Hot Shot contender and photoblogger Dalton Rooney, @robot_operator, shouts out illustrator Kristiana Parn and photographer Timothy Briner.

The lovely photographer Liz Kuball (@lizkuball) throws out Paul Ryding and Muzi Quawson.

Kabbadi by Paul Ryding

Moments later @sadkids, Geoff Ellis, photographer and founder of the zine Sad Kids, mentions Ms. Kuball herself! He also names S. Britt, Timothy Briner.

@camdenhardy then mentions both Dalton (@robot_operator) and Liz (above)!

Image by Liz Kuball

@skwidd adds Jesse Burke and the most-adored, NY Times illustration-blogging, Maira Kalman to the mix.

Illustration by Maira Kalman

@jmoneta suggests Jennifer Loeber, then @longrally aka WFMU DJ Scott McDowell makes mention of Maya Pindyck and Robbie Guertin.

@clairemazur offers Mike Monteiro and Michael Bilsborough to the ever-growing pot before Lane Collins (@lane), photographer, blogger, and HHS! contender wows us with eight more names: Brea Souders, Thomas Prior, Liz Kuball (again!), Tierney Gearon, Shawn Records, Corey Arnold, Fall 2006 Hot Shot Juliana Beasley, and Will Steacy.

Image by Corey Arnold

@rachsyme, Rachel Syme, the Culture Editor for The Daily Beast seconds Corey Arnold.

Artist Ariel Aberg-Riger, @figure1 offers another handful of nominations including her own work, Shaun Sundholm, Sophie Kern, Morgan Blair, Ryan Robinson, and Bob London.

Work by Shaun Sundholm

Lisa Solomon, an early suggestion, is also named by @polaroidgirl and then @actionchrist, representing the fantastic BAM (with whom 20x200 is currently doing a Greg Lindquist benefit edition) rounds out the replies by pointing us towards his brother, painter Matthew Tusciuk.

So here we are, many artists smarter, thanks to all your collective brainpower. Keep sending us suggestions for the artists you love @20x200 or submit your own work through Hey, Hot Shot! -- the next round of competition is opening very, very soon. We work with past and present Hot Shots on new editions all the time.

Bags, 2007, by Beth Dow

Follow the gang at 20x200 (@20x200), Hey Hot Shot (@heyhotshot), the Jen Bekman Gallery (@jenbekman) and Jen herself (@jenbee) on twitter for the latest coming from Jen Bekman Projects. This week we'll be showing off Beth Dow's work at Pulse, so come stop by our booth and say hello if you're in the New York area. Thanks to everyone who re-tweeted, responded, or otherwise spread the word. You help us find even more really great art.