[-empyre-] live collaborative explorations online

[marc <marc.garrett@furtherfield.org>]

Hi all,

I just noticed this discussion happening on here and wnated to let 
people know that our group frutherfield have been exploring live, online 
collaborative - explorations. I just wanted to mention 2 projects below, 
although wanted to say that we are also transmitting/boradcasting in 
november for 2 weeks with nontv.tv.

FurtherStudio is a unique, exploratory project, creating a platform for 
online, real-time, networked & new-media art residencies, offering a 
public window on the desktop of the artist’s personal computer whilst 
they work.

In the VisitorsStudio, a multi-user online arena for production, display 
and discussion of audiovisual, screen based work, visitors can 
experiment with the curatorial theme- ‘appropriation and ownership of 
ideas, services, products and images’. Visitors respond to each other 
live in real-time by uploading, manipulating, mixing and exhibiting 
their own compositions. The VisitorsStudio encourages people to be 
playful and imaginative in their interactions with each other and the 
network.

This year FurtherStudio has brought networked and new-media artists, 
Jess Loseby, Rich White and Bea Gibson, and their creative process, into 
audiences’ homes via the Internet; allowing all participants to 
experience a more direct human interaction with the concepts of these 
art forms, regardless of their geographical location, or social 
circumstance. Regular, online Critical Forums with leading net art 
critics have been attended by visitors around the world creating a 
public platform and broad critical consideration for the artists’ work.

Collaboratively developed by artists, programmers, critics and curators, 
with significant contributions by audiences new to art, and members of 
online art and technology forums, FurtherStudio and the VisitorsStudio 
grow organically in response to their participation. Additions and 
enhancements to functionality, usability and communication are made to 
accommodate and extend the artistic aspirations of its users.

Furtherfield is currently seeking funding to develop FurtherStudio as an 
international programme of online artists’ residencies, in an always-on 
multi-studio. Audiences new to net art and arts professionals will be 
able to hop between international net artists’ desktop screens as they 
work, and chat to them about what they are doing. Furtherfield is 
working with UK educational organisations including post-graduate 
interaction arts courses, who see the potential for this platform as 
both a pedagogic and remote mentoring tool.

Already, VisitorsStudio has platformed a popular series of, live, 
multimedia interviews with Roger Mills (editor of FurtherNoise). Guests 
have included the Australian sound artist Jodi Rose and experimental 
London, noise makers/musicians, Sijis. Artists, media labs and artists’ 
collectives in the USA, Balkans and Brazil, are creating global 
multimedia workshops and performances for the VisitorsStudio to tell 
their own local stories creatively in audio-visual language.

Both platforms continue to encourage people to be imaginative in their 
interactions with each other and the network, making real-time online 
connections through simple and accessible facilities. They provide the 
perfect platforms for explorations of distributed creativity.

If you wish to explore - you are welcome to...

all the best
marc


http://www.furtherstudio.org/live/ - visitors online collaboration.
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/online/rep.htm - new residency 
with replic**t soon.

other info:-
http://www.furtherfield.org/cwebb/screenmoments/ - screen momentsa 
collected by Chris Webb of visitors studio.
http://www.furtherstudio.org/studiomanual/interview.html - transcripts 
of live online interactive interviews on visitors studio.