VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009
[img]http://www.furtherfield.org/pics/p_1892.jpg[/img]
http://netarts.org/2009/grand_prize_2009.html
Netarts.org (aka Art on the Net) run by the Art on the Net steering committee and the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts.
VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic. 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. Providing a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts. Designed so anyone in the world can access it from a 56k modem. 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.
http://www.visitorsstudio.org
About Furtherfield - Furtherfield.org believes that through creative and critical engagement with practices in art and technology people are inspired and enabled to become active co-creators of their cultures and societies. Providing platforms for creating, viewing, discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersections of art, technology and social change.
http://www.furtherfield.org
VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009
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Type: event
- Starts: Nov 16 2009 at 12:00AM
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Comments
We are a hard working bunch and have been dedicated to connecting with others via creative, networked practices since 97. Shockingly, this is our first award ever. This may be because we never enter competitions, hoping that the spirit of what we do will be recognized for what it is on its own terms. Perhaps we may change this idea, especially when it feels so good to be recognized for our efforts, such an appreciation can do wonders for morale.
marc
marc, many congratulations to you and the whole team for many years of deeply held beliefs, perseverance, social and technical advancement for all of us, mary
Hi Mary,
Thank you very much for your generous words, it means a lot.
wishing you well.
marc
I have quite a strong connection with Furtherfield ( although none with VS, except as a great admirer of it and also having made a little film about it some time ago) so first I declare an interest.
I was little disappointed that this item didn't get picked up by Rhizome staff and front paged.
I would have thought Furtherfield had been around long enough and had a significant enough track record that news of this very well deserved award ( I don't think there is anything quite like Visitors Studio elsewhere. It's the combination of ease of use, its networked nature and the potential also to create really sophisticated work that makes it so potent and sometimes quite addictive) would have been of interest to the wider audience that is reached from the "official" Rhizome posts..
I've always made my enormous admiration for both Rhizome and Furtherfield very clear -it seems to me that, although the organisational styles are very different, they address, with great effect, similar sorts of work but in a complementary way. Certainly when I teach they are the very first two places I point students to. It seems to me a success for one helps to firm up the terrain for both organisations and for all of us working in the field. It isn't as if the work they both address was so accepted that we don't need to underline and celebrate successes…
michael
Ah - I see it has been posted now. Great! - cheers John Michael et al. :)
m.