Le Tue, 13 Nov 2001, vous avez �crit : > And how much is collaboration in art _ever_ desirable, > or even possible?
Some artists may find interesting to interact each others to reveal things. I mean improvisation between jazz musiciens for instance. But I agree that most of the time the artists want to express something very personal. Thus the others are not at all usefull if not to receive the message. > There is a kind of collaboration in sharing code under licensing that > could also happen in online art, the same kind of collaboration that For a start we can share our "instruments", "patches" and scripts. They are the technical aspects of an art form. As far as i am concerned i don't see much interest to keep my patches secret. In themself they are not meaningfull, you need to insuflate something to give them life. I have started various little projects (mainly with PovRay or PureData), and I will probably post here the url of the page you can find them. (It won't be a big deal, and the web page is not done) Concererning remix made from other's works I tend to think it is not a collaboration but a new depart for something different, although at a certain level this evolution can feed back the original author's works. > A second kind of artist collaboration the net makes easy is > discussion. We need not be physically present to share ideas. While > the physical rendezvous is still desirable for other reasons, this > online discussion can also arrange more of them where they might > otherwise not happen (eg. dorkbot). The "others" are in fact necessary for a part of our mind to exist and to be revealed. The net is a nice place for that. As an exemple of interactions, I have played with "synaesthesia" you talked about. It is enchanting, i like the sparks dancing on the music. I am now considering starting a little "synaesthesia"-like PD project. Something generic you can play with, I will release it with an open license. Can we GPL a Pure Data patch, or a POVRAY script ? Thanks for your links and personnal reflexions, Linium
