An Artist’s Riff on Million Dollar Homepage

Stirring up cash with pay-per-click ad models is standard fare on the Internet, but what about paying per pixel? In a mashup of art project-meets-electronic bulletin board-meets-Internet parody, Rhizome, the new-media affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, has launched a fund-raising site that sells space by the pixel–five cents per pixel, to be exact.