Just to give a context: As a media art internet platform, 'VisitorsStudio' works with "electronic digital media... a hybrid of electronically generated images, sounds, machine processes and possibilities for interaction". It sits within the thriving artistic territory of real-time art, software art, net art and participative and collaborative expression in contemporary, digitally enabled 'remix culture'. The late 20th century shift from material to immaterial culture and the explosion in the rate of copying, duplicating and redistributing of cultural artefacts means that this culture is now open to the influence of not just 'professional' cultural producers but of the vernacular; and this process is further accelerated by the popular adoption, mainly by young people, of commercial (but 'free') spaces like Flickr, MySpace and YouTube, which support the mass sharing of media files. The key difference being that 'VisitorsStudio' is a platform for shared projects and collaborative expression in an art context. Participants collage and mix audio-visual files together, creating live performances in real-time. Text by Ruth Catlow
On 25/06/07, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
New Audio/Visual Mixes on VisitorsStudio by Graziano Milano. http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/?q=node/53 Info about Visitorsstudio: http://blog.visitorsstudio.org An online place for real-time, multi-user mixing, collaborative creation, many to many dialogue and networked performance and play. Visitorsstudio is a Furtherfield.org project. Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others', to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other's compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors. VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived, rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users' own desktops. Informal, impromptu and ad hoc collaborations form the mainstay of VisitorsStudio activities. Debates and conversations that start in forums and mailing lists decamp to VisitorsStudio where dialogue is extended beyond text into a rich audio-visual medium. Larger events are also organised that can showcase artists work and/or focus on shared human, political and global concerns. By projecting VisitorsStudio into public spaces: community centres, cafes, bars, galleries, these events can connect communities of people in public spaces around the world. VisitorsStudio events and projects are devised and promoted by individuals or groups from around the world, providing a platform for both established media artists and first timers. Visitors can automatically record and distribute their mixes. Please visit the VisitorsStudio Archive to replay a selection of sessions that were archived manually in 2004 - 05. They show a number of ways in which VistorsStudio Version1 was used by different groups of people. VisitorsStudio was first developed by furtherfield.org in 2003 in parallel with furtherstudio.org a real-time, online, artists' residency programme. The idea was to encourage audiences new to media arts to get actively involved in the creative process by providing an easy-to-use, experimental production space live online, which was also a playful social space. Since this time VisitorsStudio has been collaboratively developed by artists, programmers, critics and curators, under the creative direction of Furtherfield.org, with significant contributions by artists and audiences, experienced and new to networked art. This platform continues to grow organically in response to participation and feedback. For more context visit here: http://blog.visitorsstudio.org/?q=About_VS _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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