The Beauty of Collaboration or Fantastic Frictions Presented by Sara Diamond Artistic Director Media and Visual Arts Executive Producer Television, New Media, and Research The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre ABEL ASI August 2003

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 2 Why collaborate? §Multiple forms of knowledge needed to address issues §Group work is exhilarating §

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 3 What is a true collaboration? §New identities emerge §Benefits all parties §Create appropriate ways of working

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 4 Are networks organically collaborative? Live culture over the Internet

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 5 Participatory culture §Communities contribute their stories §Wayne Dunkley Feel

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 6 Games can be collaborative §Created by a collaborative group §Experienced as a collaboration Can you see me now?

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 7 Music and the Internet— collaborative traditions FM/Internet hybrid radio

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 8 Mobile Cultures – communication driven Wireless or mobile experiences phone- book.com/version6 /company.php

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 9 Creation and research combined Responsive environments §(FOAM/T-Garden) T-Garden

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 10 Content and technology invention combined §Talk Nice langlois.org/e/projets / / _artiste.html

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 11 Invention can be a collaborative process §HorizonZero issue three: INVENT

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 12 Collaboration tools: chat analysis Analysis of scientific or social data §Conversation Map §CodeZebra TextArc by Brad Paley CodeZebra

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 13 Collaborative tools: movement §Very Nervous System and nCHANT nchant.html n-Cha(n)t

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 14 Collaborative tools: archives and list serves Archiving

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 15 Collaborative groups – stable and long-term

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 16 Core group with changing membership §Future Physical l.org/ Future Physical

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 17 Tribal and cultural forms of collaboration §Provides a sense of shared values or contested values §Speaking the Language of Spiders ery.org/virtual.html

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 18 Artists and scientists collaborate—project basis k/ourawardees/profil es/1584/ Luke Jerram

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 19 Labs organized to foster collaboration Encart organizations

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 20 Group authorship and ownership Peer to peer has heralded file sharing AND image changing by users Open source, collective creation and ownership pl.html adcast_and_community.ht ml

The Banff New Media Institute The Banff Centre 21 Younger creators often collaborate Games patches Remix Culture Trip Switch

The Beauty of Collaboration or Fantastic Frictions § Need conflict resolution methods §Commitment to shared goals §Shared forms of validation and individual validation §Create culture that prizes group creativity as well as, or above individual §Cooperation as well as competition