[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[Simon Biggs]

We would like to thank both Ruth Catlow and Magnus Lawrie, who have so
openly discussed their experience, and that of close colleagues, being
involved in establishing networked social communities focused on a range of
creative practices. The past week has allowed us to ground the debate with
specific examples, evidencing relevant problems, solutions and
opportunities. Magnus is now off on a well earned break from Scotland's
delightful weather but I am looking forward to Ruth's further(field)
contribution to the discussion from London.

We would like to welcome our guest for Week 4 of this discussion, Scott
Rettberg (Norway/USA). Scott is, aside from what is in his biographical
statement below, project leader of a Humanities in the European Research
Area funded joint research project titled Electronic Literature as a Model
of Creativity and Innovation in Practice ( http://www.elmcip.net/ ). ELMCIP
involves seven European academic research partners, and one non-academic
partner, who will investigate how creative communities of practitioners form
within transnational and transcultural contextsin globalised and
distributed communication environments. I am a Principal Investigator on
this project and will join Scott in discussing the issues that have arisen
this week from our perspectives as practicing artists who engage networked
systems as essential in their practice and as researchers wishing to gain
further insights into what Magnus has suggested is a form of creative social
ecology and I have earlier sought to propose as a social ontology.

Scott Rettberg (Norway/USA):
Scott Rettberg is a Chicago native who now lives in Norway. He writes, and
writes about, new media and electronic literature. Rettberg is co-founder of
the Electronic Literature Organization. His work is widely published,
including by MIT Press, The Iowa Review Web and the Electronic Book Review.
He was co-editor with N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Stephanie
Strickland of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One. He is an
associate professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen.

This July edition of empyre "Creativity as a social ontology" is moderated
by Simon Biggs (UK/Aus), edinburgh college of art.

Best

Simon


Simon Biggs
s.biggs at eca.ac.uk  simon at littlepig.org.uk
Skype: simonbiggsuk
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/

Research Professor  edinburgh college of art
http://www.eca.ac.uk/
Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice
http://www.elmcip.net/
Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts



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