Internetopia: crowdsourced drawing makes an encore appearance, this time in full color
Jan28
It seemed like too complex a project to simply produce and set aside — even though it was finished, and had succeeded in generating plenty of buzz. Last spring, UK artist Benjamin Redford undertook to create a crowdsourced Web drawing by asking Kickstarter participants to reserve small cubes of space on the canvas for $1 each. Participants could ask the artist to draw whatever they wanted and could reserve any number of cubes. Internetopia was the final result, based on requests from all over the world over a 35-day period. Hundreds of people suggested subjects for Redford to draw, and a dramatic hand-crafted rendition of…
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