The Biggest Drawing in the World (image above, video below) is a final major project by Erik Nordenankar for his degree in Advertising and Graphic Design. It has over the last year got quite a bit of attention on various weblogs as a ‘faked work’, unfairly so as the work clearly rests within a conceptual / net.art framework and so the actual execution of the work is secondary to the idea itself.

Sol LeWitt states in Sentences on Conceptual Art that:

10. Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

Here the work has taken a form, a digital networked form which documents the idea as art. It may not be the most interesting piece of net.art however it does play on some core concerns such as the manifestation and comparison of an idea (an ephemeral thing) and a digital form (virtual), the use of the web (a virtual / online space) as authentication for an event in the real world (offline) giving it credibility through it’s ‘evidence’ and status (as art itself or as something else) through it’s viral rediffusion.

Originally seen at Information Aesthetics.