In this project, ten thousand people were asked to draw one fragment each of a 100 US dollar bill split into ten thousand pieces. Solicited via the Amazon Mechanical Turk *1 online service, the anonymous participants were paid one cent for their pictures, so that the total production cost amounted to exactly ten thousand cents (one hundred dollar). Reproductions of the finished painting are sold for 100 dollars each (the proceeds go to the OLPC Project *2). The work revisits possible forms of "labor," "distribution" and "cooperation" in today's digitalized society.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/

*1 Amazon Mechanical Turk: Web service hosted by Amazon. Programmers (creators) can use this system for registering "tasks" that are difficult to carry out with a computer alone. So-called "workers" select and perform tasks from that list, and receive monetary compensation for their labor.

*2 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a non-profit association founded by Nicholas NEGROPONTE with the aim to provide especially children in developing countries with learning tools based on an innovative educational theory. As part of these activities, the association engages in the development of so-called "100$ laptops" produced at a low cost, as well as software, contents and networks.