Apparently Ten Thousand Cents has been selected as a finalist in the Experimental category for SXSW Web Awards. We are very flattered!!

Ten Thousand Cents was awarded Bronze Prize and Adobe Prize for Yahoo! Japan Internet Creative Award, and selected as Jury Recommended Works for 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival. The project will be exhibited during the festival (Feb 4th to 15th 2009) at the National Art Center Tokyo. How exciting!!

I was asked by agency Kessels Kramer in Amsterdam to develop a short video using the Ampersand, a symbolic mark of J&B. Here is the video I created.

Friend of mine found this article on Japanese advertisement magazine 広告批評 (Koukoku-Hihyou). I’ve had the opportunity to get involved in this TV commercial over last summer with awesome Goodby co-workers. We worked with a talented Japanese director Koichiro Tsujikawa (he is famous for Cornelius music videos) and we shot in Tokyo.

Ten Thousand Cents @ Ars Electronica

Thank you everybody who supported to make it happen !

I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to speak at APMT4. APMT is a design/art conference organized by cbc-net. The other speakers are Graffiti Research Lab, North Kingdom, Tota Hasegawa from Tomato and, Assistant. It was such an inspiring experience. Belows are some photos from the event. More photos are here. Thanks again Kurita-san.

Ordinary View in the City of Angeles was featured in Intersection magazine.

At this year’s Sonar Festival in Barcelona, I was invited to give Takashi’s Seasons performance.
links:SonarMàtica

Ten Thousand Cents was featured in Creativity magazine.

The online article is here, and the scanned printed article is here.

Ten Thousand Cents

“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 via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, “crowdsourcing,” “virtual economies,” and digital reproduction

www.tenthousandcents.com

in collaboration with Aaron Koblin

Selected exhibitions and Honors