Holly Crawford (ed.): Artistic Bedfellows: Histories, Theories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, collaboration, collaborative art, participation
Artistic Bedfellows is an international interdisciplinary collection of historical essays, critical papers, case studies, interviews, and comments from scholars and practitioners that shed new light on the growing field of collaborative art. This collection examines the field of collaborative art broadly, while asking specific questions with regard to the issues of interdisciplinary and cultural difference, as well as the psychological and political complexity of collaboration. The diversity of approach is needed in the current multimedia and cross disciplinarily world of art. This reader is designed to stimulate thought and discussion for anyone interested in this growing field and practice.
Contributions by Vladimir Belogolovsky; Alan F. Blackwell; Horace Brockington; Nicolas Collins; Critical Art Ensemble; Cristyn Davies; Pierre-Olivier Douphis; Chris Fite-Wassilak; Shawna Ferris; Ken Friedman; Fernando Galán; gelatin; David A. Good; Charles Green; Grant Kester; Pia Lindman; Holly Longstaff; Lull; Eva Merz; Beret Norman; Orlan; Nadín Ospina; Martin Simon; Tracey Snelling; Lisa Paul Streitfeld; TODT; Andrea Thal; Zoe Trodd; Guy Van Belle; Catharyne Ward; Steve Wozniak; Eric Wright and Nina Zimmer.
Publisher University Press of America, 2008
ISBN 0761841911, 9780761841913
330 pages
Joseph Michael Reagle, Jr.: Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (2010)
Filed under book | Tags: · citizendium, collaboration, wiki, wikipedia
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is built by a community–a community of Wikipedians who are expected to “assume good faith” when interacting with one another. In Good Faith Collaboration, Joseph Reagle examines this unique collaborative culture.
Wikipedia, says Reagle, is not the first effort to create a freely shared, universal encyclopedia; its early twentieth-century ancestors include Paul Otlet’s Universal Repository and H. G. Wells’s proposal for a World Brain. Both these projects, like Wikipedia, were fuelled by new technology–which at the time included index cards and microfilm. What distinguishes Wikipedia from these and other more recent ventures is Wikipedia’s good-faith collaborative culture, as seen not only in the writing and editing of articles but also in their discussion pages and edit histories. Keeping an open perspective on both knowledge claims and other contributors, Reagle argues, creates an extraordinary collaborative potential.
Wikipedia’s style of collaborative production has been imitated, analyzed, and satirized. Despite the social unease over its implications for individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the character (and quality) of cultural products, Wikipedia’s good-faith collaborative culture has brought us closer than ever to a realization of the century-old pursuit of a universal encyclopedia.
Foreword by Lawrence Lessig
Publisher MIT Press, 2010
History and Foundation of Information Science Series
ISBN 0262014475, 9780262014472
244 pages
Libre Graphics Magazine 1.3: Collaboration, collaboratively (2011)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · collaboration, design, floss, graphic design, graphics, libre graphics, open source, software
The third issue of magazine on open source graphic design and graphics.
Editorial team: Ana Carvalho, Ginger Coons, Ricardo Lafuente
Publisher: Ginger Coons, August 2011
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license (CC-BY-SA)
ISSN 1925-1416
60 pages
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