Notes from the last hour of the afternoon session.
Helen SCAN
curating as practice-led research
open source: working in groups (vs. working as individual)
develop software for performance artists – system develops its signature as it works with artists
notion of ownership and creator still very alive
develop software tools
develop observations in terms of how people interface
LOTTIE CHILD – Street Training
Dean of the Open University
Lottie's practice aking people into the city of London to find out how they interact with buildings, social/physical context and structures.
Producing space by behaviour, risk-taking.
About developing techniques to customise environment, amuse oneself, and stop oneself from going mad...
Kings Cross: asking people questions – how to behave on the street to be safe / how to behave to be joyful
Need to use non-proprietary online tools, avoid branding.
Again definition of open source as collaboration, (Armin: opening up space, protocols for using public space)
PETER FROM CONSTANT, BRUSSELS
interdisciplinary collective of five
fruitful interaction between disciplines
video, collaborative work
working with open source tools from a feminist and participatory perspective
working is social contexts such as neighbourhoods
participants generate content e.g. Electronic shoes with hidden cameras
monopoly of service providers – how to subvert this
as video maker only works with open source tools to reinvent own practice and also share knowledge e.g. Workshop on cinellera
re tools: 'cinelera', 'kino' video editor, activearchives: sandbox media annotation
courses for getting women involved in open source coding: is it possible to make a feminist server and what does that mean?
CEL artist from Antwerb, Belgium, doing PhD
practice evolving from installation and gallery work to documentary work /work using documentary strategies
what does this mean in terms of collaborative ideas
setting up group of peer artists with similar interests and research on common research areas
looking at nextlayer as a tool /possibility that can be implemented in the research
this as an alternative way of 'writing a thesis' and disseminating work throughout
Questions raised: who gets the PhD, issues of authorship, who produces 'original contribution to knowledge'
ALEX MCLEAN – Live Coding
language vs. tools – Alex suggests that when people talk about making tools they're mostly talking about making languages – about adding to a system of meaning rather than making a tool to do ur own work
development time vs. user time: commercial software, developers make new versions of software, users have their own timelines. In live coding there is no distinction between these two timelines, you develop the software to use it, while it's running. Synchronous
conversation vs. design: no design process, Alex in conversation with his computer. Improvising with software.
__ Np difference between practice and research.
Performs music with friends in band called slub. People dance to software=programme creative activity.
In performance people can see the code: openness.
ISMAIL MALIK – Tower Hamlets
Working with undergraduates to create apprenticeships. He suggests following model (from Mechanics Institute, Birkbeck). Very difficult to set up an academy in the UK, too many rules and requirements. Combine models of open education, wiki universities etc. Student able to take course by implementng activity s/he interested in and gain the degree as a by-product. Issue that a major institution can crash someone's personality.
