CFW UPDATE

CFW Invited to Join Million Artists Project

TORONTO, CANADA – Cystic Fibrosis Worldwide has been invited to join Million Artists, an international fund-raising project for medical charities. The website aims to break the Guinness Book of World Records’ largest piece of collaborative abstract art record while collecting donations for non-profits. Each donor selects a pixel of color to become part of a huge abstract “painting.”

Computer programmers Eugene Pik and Anthony Barker created the technology that allows an image to be created from the random pixels. Users go to the website, make a donation through Paypal, and chooses the color of their pixel. The computer randomly assigns the pixel a location, and an image is slowly created.

The current world record, set by Jim Campbell in 1998, used 25,297 people to paint a picture. “I wanted to use Internet and computer technology to invite a million artists to break that record,” Pik said.

The site is translated in 25+ languages, making it easy for anyone to become a part of the project. Many of the donors are artists themselves who wanted to support the project. A randomly selected list displays donors and links to their homepages. Money collected is sent to a charity of the donor’s choice.

Tim Seaward, an artist-donor from Great Britain, commented that: “I will place a link on my index page, and because I am a member of a local Arts Group, I shall share the news with them... and tell anyone else I can! This is going to be amazing!!”
To find out more about this exciting project, please visit http://www.millionartists.com and donate today.

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