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

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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