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• The E-Sylum: Volume 11, Number 19, May 11, 2008, Article 27
  

  FEATURED WEB SITE: TEN THOUSAND CENTS COLLABORATIVE ART PROJECT
  

  This week's featured web site is suggested by Dick Johnson.
  He writes: "Here's an interesting art project that may be of
  interest to E-Sylum readers. I came across it in Monica Noelle
  Voigt's recent blog post."
  

  Artists Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima created a digital
  image of the one hundred dollar bill. Comprising images of
  drawings made by 10,000 people from Mechanical Turk which is
  an online business site. They were asked to reproduce an
  abstract piece and received one cent for their contribution.
  The final product resembles a mosaic-like image of the one
  hundred dollar bill.
  

  These Artists are not the first to work with money in art.
  However the way that they did it was a great trick, almost.
  These people who they "hired" did not know why they were asked
  to created a drawing they just knew that they were being paid
  for it. I'm not sure if they knew how much they were going to
  get paid for before they did it. Because I'm not sure that
  one cent is worth much anymore.
  

  Featured Web Site
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n19a27.html

Date published

• 2008-05-11

Volume

• 11

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