Hello!
My name is Tilman Baumgärtel, and I am a free-lance writer and curator,
living in Berlin, Germany. (I was a visiting student in Bufallo in
1990/1991 at the media studies department, btw. ;-)
I published two books on internet art, "net.art" and "net.art 2.0". I
recently co-organized a show of net art group Jodi, that was shown in
Berlin, Basel and New York, and I am currently working on an exhibition of
computer games by artists and other art works that deal with gaming. "Games
- Computerspiele von Künstlern" will open October 10th in Dortmund and
hopefully travel to Berlin next year. Here is a link:
http://www.hartware-projekte.de/programm/inhalt/games_e.htm
I think the topic of the Collaboration-Conference is quite interesting. In
my research I recently encountered this subject, when I looked into the
nature of online cooperation on games and game components such as levels,
maps, characters etc for games like Counterstrike, Medal of Honour etc. I
did some email interviews with kids who do modifications, and wrote a
number of journalistic pieces about it. I think there is much more going on
on this level than in all these highly charged, ideological projects suchs
as wiki etc.
Aprt from that, I agree with Wolfgangs criticism. I think that a conference
on the subject of free collaboration should look for independent
infrastructure. My email programm labels all the mails on this list with a
"Spam Alert" sign - probably because it comes from the server topica.com...
Yours,
TilmanDr. Tilman Baumgärtel
Weserstr. 25
12045 Berlin
Tel./Fax.: 030-2170962
ma-*at*tilmanbaumgaertel.net
www.tilmanbaumgaertel.net