Dear nettimers, Between 17 – 23 January 2010 transmediale, together with FLOSS Manuals, hosted an experimental Book Sprint focussing on the festival theme FUTURITY NOW!. The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative methodology for the rapid development of books saw five people locked in a room in Berlin's IMA Design Village for five days to produce a book with the sole guiding meme being the title – Collaborative Futures. They had to create the concept, write the book, and output it to print in 5 days.
Collaborative Futures was facilitated by Adam Hyde and written by Mike Linksvayer, Alan Toner, Marta Peirano, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv with a number of guests who contributed chapters and passages. The process opened up a new and networked discussion focusing on a new vocabulary of the forms, media and goals of collaborative digital practice. As the transmediale.10 publication the Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats to enact the festival notion of futurity in the form of a flash publication. Aleksandar Erkalovic in part developed and tested the alpha version of the 'booki' collaborative platform live and on-site with which 'Collaborative Futures' was created. The contents of the book are now available online, and a special limited edition of 200 copies featuring a great cover designed by Laleh Torabi will be available for sale during transmediale.10, opening next Tuesday Feb 02, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. For an e-pub and pdf version: http://www.transmediale.de/en/collaborative-futures with some great pics and more info on the process at FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/about transmediale.10 FUTURITY NOW! 02 - 07 February 2010 House of World Cultures Berlin http://www.transmediale.de twitter #tm10 Collaborative Futures festival edition price 15,-- euro greetings, and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin next week, Stephen artistic director -------------------------------------------------------- FUTURITY NOW! transmediale.10 | 2 - 7 feb 2010 festival for art and digital culture berlin tickets and passes online at: http://www.transmediale.de/en/tickets -------------------------------------------------------- klosterstr. 68 - 10179 berlin - germany fon +49 30 24749 761 fax +49 30 24749 763 http://www.transmediale.de http://twitter.com/transmediale facebook: transmediale kulturprojekte berlin gmbh aufsichtsratsvorsitzender volker heller geschäftsführer moritz van dülmen amtsgericht berlin charlottenburg, HRB 41312 B -------------------------------------------------------- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
