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Digital Project, Ten Thousand Cents
This is a Digital Project. It was designed by Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima and with contribution from Mechanical Turk. It is dated 2007–08 and we acquired it in 2014. Its medium is processing, adobe flash cs3, php/mysql, amazon mechanical turk, adobe photoshop, adobe after effects. It is a part of the Digital department.
To create Ten Thousand Cents, designers Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima divided a scan of a $100 bill into 10,000 equal parts. The pieces were posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk, a distributed labor tool; workers were paid $.01 to duplicate each piece. (The total labor cost was 10,000 cents.) Use the trackpad to interact with the piece, uncovering each worker’s reproduction—whether detailed, sloppy, or editorial. The project comments on crowdsourcing and individual expression within a collective work.
This object was featured in our Object of the Week series in a post titled Ten Thousand Cents.
This object was
donated by
Aaron Koblin.
It is credited Gift of Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima.
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Cite this object as
Digital Project, Ten Thousand Cents; Designed by Aaron Koblin (American, b. 1982), Takashi Kawashima (Japanese, b. 1981); With contribution from Mechanical Turk; USA; processing, adobe flash cs3, php/mysql, amazon mechanical turk, adobe photoshop, adobe after effects; Gift of Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima; 2014-41-2
Ten Thousand Cents
Ten Thousand Cents is a digital rendering of a $100 bill created from individually crowdsourced drawings.
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Making | Breaking: New Arrivals.
