The Beauty of Collaboration or Fantastic Frictions
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The Beauty of Collaboration or Fantastic Frictions
Presented by Sara Diamond
Artistic Director Media and Visual Arts
Executive Producer Television, New Media, and Research
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ABEL ASI August 2003
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Why collaborate?
Multiple forms of knowledge needed to address issues
Group work is exhilarating
http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/
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What is a true collaboration?
New identities emerge
Benefits all parties
Create appropriate ways of working http://www.horizonzero.ca
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Are networks organically collaborative?
Live culture over the Internet
http://www.sat.qc.ca/
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Participatory culture
Communities contribute their stories
Wayne Dunkley
http://www.horizonzero.ca
http://www.sharemyworld.net/
Feel
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Games can be collaborative
Created by a collaborative group
Experienced as a collaboration
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/Can you see me now?
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Music and the Internet—collaborative traditions
FM/Internet hybrid radio
http://radio90.fm
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Mobile Cultures – communication driven
Wireless or mobile experiences
http://www.the-phone-book.com/version6/company.php
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Creation and research combined
Responsive environments
(FOAM/T-Garden)
http://f0.am
T-Garden
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Content and technology invention combined
Talk Nice
langlois.org/e/projets/687-5-2001/687-5-2001_artiste.html
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Invention can be a collaborative process
HorizonZero issue three: INVENT
http://www.horizonzero.ca
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Collaboration tools: chat analysis
Analysis of scientific or social data
Conversation Map CodeZebra
www.codezebra.net
TextArc by Brad Paley
CodeZebra
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Collaborative tools: movement
Very Nervous System and nCHANT
http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/nchant.html
n-Cha(n)t
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Collaborative tools: archives and list serves
Archiving
http://www.rhizome.org/
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Collaborative groups – stable and long-term
www.interaccess.org
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Core group with changing membership
Future Physical
http://www.futurephysical.org/
Future Physical
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Tribal and cultural forms of collaboration
Provides a sense of shared values or contested values
Speaking the Language of Spiders
http://www.dunlopartgallery.org/virtual.html
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Artists and scientists collaborate—project basis
http://www.nesta.org.uk/ourawardees/profiles/1584/
Luke Jerram
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Labs organized to foster collaboration
http://www.v2.nl
http://www.encart.net
Encart organizations
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Group authorship and ownership
Peer to peer has heralded file sharing AND image changing by users
Open source, collective creation and ownership
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
http://shirky.com/writings/broadcast_and_community.html
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Younger creators often collaborate
Games patches
http://www.boredomresearch.net/
Remix Culture
http://www.horizonzero.ca
Trip Switch
The Beauty of Collaboration or Fantastic Frictions
Need conflict resolution methods Commitment to shared goals Shared forms of validation and individual validation Create culture that prizes group creativity as well as, or above individual Cooperation as well as competition