Games from Nothing: My Sketchbook — Sol Lewitt Game #1

SL1

MASSIVELY COOPERATIVE CROWDSOURCED EMERGENT SCRIBBLE-DRAWING GAME

(could also work in a singleplayer context but that’d be a lot less interesting).

Exactly what the people in this video are doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnKgSWugUWU

but divided between hundreds of people, each contributing a tiny square, scribbling on their touchscreens however they like, until the space is as dark as it needs to be according to the artist’s highly precise instructions/measurements/darkness gradient.  That square is then submitted to the communal picture.  The resulting image will be totally unique, every time (though it’d have to be pretty hi-res to allow us to zoom way in and see all the scribbles.

Author: cmnfgs