Gus:
In my experience, collaboration take place at many level. I may be aware of
some of the artists' work, but my friends and other artists direct my
attention to new works. The collaboration start at that point. The network
is formed automaticly. I have been in the media arts community for more than
15 years and what really moves the comuna is the social dynamics. I guess,
we all have been aware that you need a social network to create and exhibit
your work. Sometimes, you find people who are working on the same line you
are and the exchange take place.
Because of the nature of the media arts, you cann't produce the work unleast
you have a group of people that support you. In the case of most of the
"third world" and Latino artits that I know, the work is produced because
the we offer our human and material resources to the production of the work.
The same take place when organazing new media exhibit in Latin America.
Since the museums don't have the resources, we have to depend on friends and
supporters to produce the show. In the last InteractivA, the artists who
came to Merida did help to set up the show because not of the museum
assistant really new how to hang a new media show. That was a great
collaborative a experience.
Saludos,
Raul Ferrera-Balanquet

  From: gu-*at*clacso.edu.ar
Reply-To: collabo-*at*topica.com
To: collabo-*at*topica.com, Ah_Ek Ferrera_Balanquet <ekte-*at*hotmail.com>;
Subject: Re: [freecooperation] Introduction
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:47:52 -0300
On Tuesday 16 September 2003 12:45, Ah_Ek Ferrera_Balanquet wrote:
Hola
Are very interesting the ideas ...
One question
Iam researcher in the subject of auto-organization in technologies network
of
open access.
Iam interested in use anyone network that use of colaboration,
auto-organization..
I see a lot of messages about
curatorial collaborative...
Is there a group that work the curatorial discipline in form of
collaborative...
Regards
Gus
sorry for my english... 

Saludos to all:
My name is Raul Ferrera-Balanquet, an interdisciplinary artist, writer and
  curator. My last curatorial effort took place at InteractivA'03
(www.cartodigital.org/interactiva) and I am working in a piece called
"Traveling Corners/Esquinas Rodantes" which tries to integrate migration
with a database in a network narrative.
I am very interested in this list because all of the work I do, including
  the curatorial work, is based on collaboration. The socio economic
conditions of the territories where I live, doesn't allow me to produce the
  type of work I would like to do, therefore, I depend on the contributions
  of my friends and others who become my friends via the work.
Hope we can have an enriching cultural exchange in the list.Raul