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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 The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre ABEL ASI August 2003. Why collaborate?.
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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 The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre ABEL ASI August 2003
Why collaborate? • Multiple forms of knowledge needed to address issues • Group work is exhilarating • http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/ The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
What is a true collaboration? • New identities emerge • Benefits all parties • Create appropriate ways of working http://www.horizonzero.ca The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Are networks organically collaborative? Live culture over the Internet http://www.sat.qc.ca/ The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Participatory culture • Communities contribute their stories • Wayne Dunkley http://www.horizonzero.ca Feel http://www.sharemyworld.net/ The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Games can be collaborative • Created by a collaborative group • Experienced as a collaboration http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ Can you see me now? The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Music and the Internet—collaborative traditions FM/Internet hybrid radio http://radio90.fm The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Mobile Cultures – communication driven Wireless or mobile experiences http://www.the-phone-book.com/version6/company.php The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Creation and research combined Responsive environments • (FOAM/T-Garden) http://f0.am T-Garden The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Content and technology invention combined • Talk Nice langlois.org/e/projets/687-5-2001/687-5-2001_artiste.html The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Invention can be a collaborative process • HorizonZero issue three: INVENT http://www.horizonzero.ca The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Collaboration tools: chat analysis Analysis of scientific or social data • Conversation Map • CodeZebra www.codezebra.net TextArc by Brad Paley CodeZebra The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Collaborative tools: movement • Very Nervous System and nCHANT http://homepage.mac.com/davidrokeby/nchant.html n-Cha(n)t The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Collaborative tools: archives and list serves Archiving http://www.rhizome.org/ The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Collaborative groups – stable and long-term www.interaccess.org The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Core group with changing membership • Future Physical http://www.futurephysical.org/ Future Physical The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
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 The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Artists and scientists collaborate—project basis http://www.nesta.org.uk/ourawardees/profiles/1584/ Luke Jerram The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Labs organized to foster collaboration http://www.v2.nl http://www.encart.net Encart organizations The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
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 The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
Younger creators often collaborate Games patches http://www.boredomresearch.net/ Remix Culture http://www.horizonzero.ca Trip Switch The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre
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