10,000 Cents

Here's an interesting group art project worthy of your attention: "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, so the total labor cost to create the bill and the artwork being created both are $100. According to the site, the project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

Visit the site to see the interactive artwork, or review the movie below.


Ten Thousand Cents from Ten Thousand Cents on Vimeo.