Its been a very interesting day, maybe a little bit to 'techie' for me, but on the other hand very worth while due to the diversity of viewpoints in the individual presentations and talks. The Next Layer, so it seems to me, is a fantastic tool for a lot of things, social networking, exchange, artistic collaboration, dissemination of knowledge, politics, archiving and documenting... I subscribe to Lidsay’s conclusion in her recent post ‘Danger: Lest Taxi to Praxi be Forgotten’ The major theme is one of ownership and dissemination of knowledge. My thesis proposal to incorporate other participants (artists, writers, academics...) within a theme of Documentary research is set up as a collaborative research effort. The use of tools and technologies that incorporate multiple contributors/collaborators will inevitably question the notion of authorship and intellectual property.The use of a platform like thenextlayer seems demanding to me. Users/contributors need to have a clear social and artistic engagement towards the content of a project, its not just about developing a new tool. They have to poses a certain amount of media literacy skills and they have to make it 'work'. The biggest challenge in setting up a platform is to get people involved and participating. I will put it to the test and try to find out if I’m able to do so and make it work as an integrated part of my research and artwork.

Meanwhile I'm communicating my findings out of this workshop with the university of Leuven. The first issue will be how to embed a collaborative open source culture into to my PhD research and into the broader university context.

Some other things on my mind, documentary strategies as methodology? can intuition be a methodolgy ?

So far so good,

Cel.

My presentation was somewhat incoherent, those who are interested can have a look at my Dan Graham docuvideo. It’s available on youtube, its only suitable for preview due to poor quality.

part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFQl_tCfE0
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb3P5EP7Trg
part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUnkLy71xnU
part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63IuDSM176w
part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MStY7sSrql4

some more linking:
http://www.khib.no/khib/ku_fou/konferanser_seminarer/sensuous_knowledge
http://astide.wikidot.com/
http://www.aecinfo.org/
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html The conference will examine how instrumental is this difference in the production and consumption of research in a wide range of subjects including fine arts, design, performing arts, architecture, etc.
http://www.mahku.nl MaHKU Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design: Research Department, Ma Design, Ma Fine Art
http://www.cascoprojects.org Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory
http://www.expodium.nl Expodium, Platform for young art
http://www.scienceguide.nl/article.asp?articleid=105056