Dear list participants,
Thanks for all your inspiring posts, introductions and suggestions.
On the freecooperation.org website we started a link collection.
We added links including the chamber orchestra Orpheus that works without
conductor, The Free Online Class as part of WIKI Institute and the "Beauty
of Collaboration" conference at The Banff New Media Institute.
The ©¯ArtSci2002: New Dimensions in Collaboration©˜ conference focused on
cross-disciplinary collaborations between artists, and scientists. We
entered a site focusing on social play, the early web-based art piece "The
World's First Collaborative Sentence" and "NY Learns," a curriculum
enhancement and communication web-portal. Please send us your relevant
links. http://molodiez.org/ocs/relatedlinks.php
This would be a good time to post descriptions of collaborative works and
project-specific reflections on working collaboratively online or off (as
some of you have already started). One way to approach this would be to look
at structures of collectivity. How do new participants of a collective join
a core/ development team and how is this relationship handled best? How is
this approached in collaborative journalism, collaborative (weblog)
filtering, collaborative writing, wikis, the Open Source or Free software
movement or the Global Social Movement(s)?
Within an art context CAE's "Observations on Collective Cultural Action"
were useful to me. I added a link to the text on the website also.
Which network architectures (ie. wikis, lists, collaborative blogging/
filtering) are available and how useful were they in supporting specific
collaborative cultural initiatives?
Over the past weeks we raised some money here in the university as Geert
Lovink mentioned. The funding thus far allows us to make the conference
happen but we do need your support. Please assist us in making your travel
possible. We can fax you letters of invitation. It is also be advised to
buy tickets soon because they are still affordable now.
In the context of the conference there will be video screenings at or
curated by Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center(http://www.hallwalls.org/) and
Squeaky Wheel (http://www.squeaky.org/). If you like your video to be
included in a screening please send us tapes (preferably NTSC) or DVDs
that focus on collaboration. We do not have the funds to insure the material
but we'll treat it with utmost care. Please send materials to the address at
the end of this e.mail.
After the conference- for the afternoon of Monday April 26, we are planning
a post-conference event in New York City for those of you who are on their
way back.
Thank you to all of you who already submitted conference proposals and text
summaries. For the conference we encourage your online registration soon.
http://molodiez.org/ocs/registration.php
from lower Manhattan,
Trebor
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University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Department of Media Study
Attn Trebor Scholz
College of Arts and Sciences
231 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY 14260-6020