Collaboration and New Media / SnowCrash of the Flesh
Multimodal Presentation/Performance
In Conjunction with College Art Association New Media Caucus 2007
NYC/Second Life/Worldwide Nets
Contact: Patrick Lichty
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CONTEXT:
For the Feb. 14, 2007 New Media Caucus panel of the College Art Association in NYC, Patrick Lichty was to present a paper on “New Media and Collaboration”, questioning whether New Media has a native culture specifically conducive to collaboration. Following the example of Dr. Brian Oblivion from Cronenberg’s movie “Videodrome”, Lichty began in 2002 to present paper presentations in the form of multimedia and video documents, attending only for discussion and answering questions. This was originally done to combat stress issues and presentation-based ADD, but Lichty now does this to create reiterable documents for critical discussion.
On Valentine’s Day 2007, a powerful storm swept across
Like Jude from the movie Lawnmower Man, or Flynn from TRON, Lichty (at least for a couple days) is left completely in the virtual, and invites those interested to view the presentation and engage in discourse during the week of 2.14.2007-2.21.2007.
PRESENTATION INTRO/ABSTRACT
For the period of time that New Media art has been in existence, whether under the banner of Art and Technology, CyberArts, or New Media, collaborations have been a highly visible avenue of production. Within the greater New Media genre, there are numerous collectives, such as
Can one say that the collaborative impulse in New Media is a direct reflection of its cultural underpinnings and technical evolution? Surely, the collective or networked culture was forecast at least forty years ago by McLuhan, with his pronouncements of the Global Village, which presciently sounds like forms of 21st Century Social Media. But is New Media, and its native culture, specifically conducive to collaborations? In this essay, we will examine the cultural conditions of New Media, its necessities, its problems and benefits. In addition, we will examine some models of collaboration that the author has participated in with various groups in order to compare different ways in which New Media artists create together.
REALIZATION:
For the week of 2/14-2/21, Lichty will make the presentation video available as Quicktime stream/downloadable video from his
NMCollaboration.blogspot.com has also been created for additional discussion.
I welcome you to view these materials, and humbly submit them for your approval.
I await you in the nets, and apologize for not being able to be there in the flesh.
RESOURCES:
Presentation URL
http://iam.colum.edu/PLichty/CAA2.mov
Blog:
http://NMCollaboration.blogspot.com
Second Life:
The BitFactory Alternative ArtSpace
Han Loso: 81, 39, 137
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