Collaborative and Collective [Artistic] Research

Winnie Soon | PIT, Aarhus University Nov 2014 | AVA, Baptist University, HK

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.about me

• role: artist-researcher

• interest: network culture and computational process

www.siusoon.com

.readme.spampoem (2014)• In collaboration with Poet

Susan Scarlata (US)

• more than 30 spam poems

• email platform as an art medium

• questions: what is spam? how does it appeal using various rhetorical devices to engage with others? and how is it filtered, generated, received, and can that reception be altered?

http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1184

write an email to: readme.spampoem@gmail.com.

.animated gif• How to get the Mao

experience through Internet…. (2014)

• collective work: I collect internet mao images and try to contact each of the author one by one to get their permission.

• question: how does this digital format reconfigure the experience of a public space and public figure?

http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1155

. collective vs collaborative?

• how do you see the difference between the two terms?

. collective vs collaborative?

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"Collaboration and collective efforts are often confused by those not familiar with both terms…Collaboration is people working together (often with a common goal) to build one thing. Collective efforts are the aggregation of people's individual efforts, sometimes in the same service, but do not have common goal or common effort"

Thomas Vanderwahlhttp://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=1949

. SPEED SHOW [2.0]

http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1122

. SPEED SHOW [2.0]

. Summer (2013)

• Work by Olia Lialina (RU/DE)

• http://art.teleportacia.org/olia/summer/

. co-author

• collaborative writing - reflective writing

• google doc

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e62r4hJ9Wyqx6opscca8sDPiyMS9eUHhoXniO8ERtiw/edithttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCsAQKcFLbq_gbpIQB_IRq307fsanxJAP8Y9XLawkXk/edit

Transmediale Festival

• http://www.transmediale.de/

• Berlin-based festival -> art, culture and technology

• Theme: Capture all

.Datafied research workshop

• peer-review

http://www.transmediale.de/content/datafied-research

.Datafied research workshop• Jul 2014 - Open call: http://

www.transmediale.de/content/datafied-research

• Aug 2014 - notification

• Sep 2014 - 2000 words by everyone (http://datafied-research.projects.cavi.au.dk/)

• Oct 2014 - post responses

• end Oct 2014 - face to face presentation and critique + 1000 words

.banner in hk context

.approach• What is reflexivity?

• “Reflexivity requires an awareness of the researcher’s contribution to the construction of meanings throughout the research process, and an acknowledgement of the impossibility of remaining ‘outside of' one’s subject matter while conducting research. Reflexivity then, urges us to explore the ways in which a researcher’s involvement with a particular study influences, acts upon and informs such research.”

(Nightingale and Cromby, 1999, p.228)

. reflexive practice• self-reflexive

• reflective

• dialogic

• questioning

(Sullivan, 2010, p.110-111)

.theory-practice

http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=1273

http://datafied-research.projects.cavi.au.dk/?p=178

http://hellozombies.net/

.zombiesSpam come with peculiar email addresses that appear everywhere on the Internet as a quantified phenomenon. They are living in the network but many of them are faked like the zombies of the living dead. This article discusses the notion of the living dead in the context of spam culture, in particular the computational and network process of spam production. It investigates the role of code plays and the material aspect of code interacts in the process of datafication.

“We are with you everyday, we live in the Internet with peculiar addresses and enticing titbits, but you call us “spam”. We wander around the network, mindlessly, and you wanted to trash us, but we are still everywhere. We are just the children of your economic and social system, but you ignore and avoid us. We are not dead, we write, we create.”

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—This artwork examines these nonhuman zombies as a cultural phenomenon that produces quantified data and network identities. Through running the automated living machines, the artwork intervenes the network by writing spam poems to zombies and reading networked replies continuously. This project explores zombies of the living dead that bring forward social, technical, capitalistic and aesthetic relations in everyday lives.

http://generativeaesthetics.blogspot.dk/ http://generativeaesthetics.blogspot.dk/2014_07_01_archive.html

thank you