Ethnographies of Co-Creation and Collaboration as Models of Creativity.
By Penny Travlou.
The theme of my inquiry is how creative networked communities emerge in
transnational and transcultural contexts, within a globalized and
distributed communications environment. How do communities form and
change through the collaborative activities of their members? How do
members of these online communities come together to reinterpret and
facilitate creativity?
I attempted to gain insights to these questions through ethnographic
research with three creative communities that constitute and deploy
themselves online and in physical space: Furtherfield, an artist-led
online community and arts organization; Art is Open Source, the Italian
artist duo of Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, who develop
ubiquitous publishing through cocreative practices; and Make-Shift, a
cyberformance community represented by Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula
Crutchlow. These three communities are closely interlinked. In fact, as
I relate below, I happened upon the latter two by following leads and
lines of collaboration opened to me through my work within Furtherfield.
Furtherfield was my principal host, my fieldwork home, and the community
I spent the most time with and which I managed to observe most closely
and longest.
For this reason, this report, the first to emerge from my ethnographic
fieldwork and before I have had the opportunity to analyze and
theoretically contextualize my field evidence, focuses almost
exclusively on Furtherfield, with only passing reference to Art is Open
Source and Make-Shift.
(Source: Ethnographies of Co-Creation and Collaboration as Models of
Creativity by Penny Travlou)
http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/ethnographies-co-creation-and-collaboration-models-creativity
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