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1. Ten Thousand Cents
3 months ago
"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

Music by Yasuhiro Tsuchiya
more info: tenthousandcents.com
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  • kathy gill 3 months ago
    The project is intriguing. How did you parse the image of the $100 bill into 10,000 pieces for replication?

    Why did you launch even though there are what appear to be "blank" spots on the $100 dollar bill? Or are all of those "blanks" people who "drew" with a different color?

    Finally, given the emphasis on "open" sourcing, I'm curious why you've chosen a webhost that wants me to use MSIE and that doesn't use OpenID for comments.

    [Note: I could create a new account with Firefox but I had to launch MSIE in order to upload a picture ... with FF, Vimeo never got past "Loading upload stuff. Just a sec". Also, there are no "scroll bars" with FF so it appears that it's impossible to comment.]

    My blog: wiredpen.com
  • Ben B 3 months ago
    I'm in Firefox, and I can scroll and comment. It may be your particular build of FF, or that way yours installed.
  • kathy gill 3 months ago
    And I have scroll bars now ... but did not when I posted. Something got changed, me thinks, and it wasn't my version of FF. :)
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  • roger scott 3 months ago
    I can too.
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