Description: Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using custom drawing tool, thousands individuals working in isolation from one another painted tiny part the bill without knowledge overall task. Workers were paid cent each via amazon's mechanical turk distributed labor tool. Total cost of the bill, creation, and reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as video piece with 10,000 parts drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumst
media (9903) ucla (174) crowdsourcing (134) counterfeit (76) $100 (75) data art (22) mturk (5) mechanical turk (4) aaron koblin (2) takashi kawashima (1)
Click above to investigate.
© 2008 Aaron Koblin + Takashi Kawashima