Artist Collaboration @ AVA Winnie Soon| Nov. 2013

Interest

  Internet Culture

 Network Art

 Data aesthetics and politics

  Software Studies

 New Media Art

http://www.siusoon.com/

Collaboration Vs Co-operation

" The verb 'to collaborate' come from the Late Latin collaboratus, past participle of collaborare - to labor together, from the Latin words 'com' and 'laborare' to labor. The relevant definition here means 'to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor."

(Friedman, 2008, p.140)

Collaboration with choreographers

  Intervis (an audio-visual live performance)

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157613453852084/

Collaboration with choreographers

 Datascape (interactive live performance)

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157628451072821/

Collaboration with an artist   Karen Sam Norgard

Collaboration with an artist   Image gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/

sets/72157626986593954/

 Net. Portrait (ver 1): http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=710

Helen Pritchard

Participatory learning and action

Learning by doing (O’Brien, 1998:2)

Through a spiral of cycles of critical and self-critical action and reflection (Kemmis, S & Mctaggart, R., 2005)

Helen Pritchard

 Artworks collaboration

 Writing co-authoring

Helen Pritchard – jsut code  @ Youth Square / Writing Machine Collective

 @ Hong Kong Arts Center

 @ Museum of Science and Industry / UK

Helen Pritchard – jsut code   Participation & Performance

Helen Pritchard – code

Video: http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=900

Thousands of other questions

Helen Pritchard – co-writing

 Writing at the same time:   https://docs.google.com/document/d/

1XHrpDAIb0_BPQZMjMWqnNguMjOH0TDUULs8n-y3wsRA/edit

  https://docs.google.com/document/d/15y2R0-V1wkdwzEJ2iTsyg0KBCYb3T4DGVXRYBxRVbSU/edit

 Google doc demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blTniM9Oauk&feature=youtu.be

Helen Pritchard – Brother Cream Cat

 A live demo: The Likes of Brother Cream Cat

Helen Pritchard – Brother Cream Cat

 Reflexive Process & action learning

 http://sensingstreetcats.blogspot.hk/

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ki8_63YXuODX3DkZtmJ0HwjZRBwalIODlvVFB67R8-4/edit

PAR: self-reflective cycles

  Planning a change

  Acting and observing the process and consequences of the change

  Reflecting on these processes and consequences

  Replanning

  Acting and observing again

  Reflecting again, and so on . . .

(Kemmis, S & McTaggart, 2005)

Collaboration on curatorial projects

 Voxbox: One audio input, infinite cultural output

  InNoPO: http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=469

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157618574041312/

  Process: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157618486184161/

 Artworks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157618486193263/

Collaboration on curatorial projects  Organized by Audrey Samson and Winnie Soon

  SPEED SHOW [2.0] / HK

  8-Dec at Kubrick (18:30 – 21:30)

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JGaSjdEBrsZHedYKAffcI-JqjcHaqdXLFPLKmOYzxaY/edit

My thoughts

 Authorship / Ownership

 Open and respect other thoughts/actions

  Try to understand your partner’s personality and her/his approaches: which type of collaboration?

 What do you want to achieve

 Cultivate imagination, focus on co-process & co-sharing

 Artworks, Writing/publication, Exhibition, Organization …

Collaboration Vs Co-operation

“Collaboration is a philosophy of interaction and personal lifestyle whereas cooperation is a structure

of interaction designed to facilitate the accomplishment of an end product or goal”

- Ted Panitz (1996)

Thank You

Q & A

Ref

  Brien, R. (2001). Um exame da abordagem metodológica da pesquisa ação [An Overview of the Methodological Approach of Action Research]. In Roberto Richardson (Ed.), Teoria e Prática da Pesquisa Ação [Theory and Practice of Action Research]. João Pessoa, Brazil: Universidade Federal da Paraíba. (English version) Available: http://www.web.ca/~robrien/papers/arfinal.html

  Kemmis, S & Mctaggart, R., 2005. Participatory Action Research: Communicative Action and the public sphere. In Denzin, Norman K. and Lincoln, Yvona S., (eds) The SAFE Handbook of Qualitative Research. 3rd ed. London: SAGE Publications. [Online] Available at: www.sagepub.com/upm-data/21157_Chapter_10.pdf‎

Ref images:

  http://blog.thoughtstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/collaboration-wordle.png

  http://iki0723.blogspot.hk/2008/11/lenfer-cest-les-autres.html

Appendix

Collaboration with a technologist

  SuperToys

  Images gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/72157612651141187/

 http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=190