Phi territories: Neighbourhoods of collaboration and participation

Αντωνοπούλου, Αλεξάνδρα; Dare, Eleanor

doi:10.1386/jwcp.5.1.85_1

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“…We said yes, and found ourselves sitting in a conference break-out room after listening to several presentations about previous projects. We had all expressed an interest in the presentation of the 'Phi territories: Neighbourhoods of collaboration and participation' project (Antonopoulou and Dare 2012). The challenge was laid down.…”

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The art of letters: An epic journey of intimate thought and exchange

Corble

Dabiri

Halász

et al. 2012

Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

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A call was sent out to participate in a writing workshop. Five strangers attended and connected through a shared interest in narrative and storytelling. Inspired by 'Phi territories', an article in the previous edition of JWCP, they formed the question 'How is storytelling an embodiment of performative or tacit processes?' and set about authoring a collaborative article in response. Despite being united by mutual interest, their visions of how to put those ideas into practice would diverge. How to mould something cohesive and impose form and order on multiple approaches to content generated by researchers of different backgrounds? An experimental collaborative process was developed, based on writing letters and replying to the next person in the sequence in a relay of call and response. This experiment would be overseen by an outsider member, who would not be addressed, nor write a letter, but who would receive a copy of each of the letters and create an intervention in response. And so the stage was set for the story to begin … Keywords affect embodiment form/content letter writing performance storytelling

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The art of letters: An epic journey of intimate thought and exchange

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Dabiri

Halász

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Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

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Emerging Forms of Collaboration

Αντωνοπούλου

Dare

2016

Cultural, Behavioral, and Social Considerations in Electronic Collaboration

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The chapter will outline the implications of two projects, namely the ‘Phi Books' (2008) and the ‘Digital Dreamhacker' (2011). These novel projects serve here as case studies for investigating new and challenging ways of advancing collaborative technologies, using in particular, Communities of Practice and insights gained from both embodiment and graph theory (social network analysis) as well as design. Both projects were developed collaboratively, between a computer programmer and a designer and a wider community of practice, consisting of other artists, writers, technologists and designers. The two systems that resulted also acted as methodologies, instigated by the authors with a view to facilitate, explore and comment on the act of collaboration. Both projects are multi-disciplinary, spanning ideas and techniques from mathematics and art, design and computer programming. The projects deploy custom-made software and fiction enmeshed structures, drawing upon methodologies that are embedded with dreams and stories while at the same time being informed by cutting-edge research into human behaviour and interaction design. The chapter will investigate how the projects deployed techniques and theoretical insights from social network analysis as well as motion capture technology and the wider concept of a Community of Practice, to extend and augment existing collaborative methods. The chapter draws upon Wenger et al (2002), as well as Siemens (2014) and Borgatti et al (2009), and will explore the idea of a new form of collective social and technological collaborative grammar, deploying gesture as well as Social Network Analysis. Moreover, the featured projects provide insights into the ways in which digital technology is changing society, and in turn, the important ways in which technology is embedded with the cultural and economic prerogatives of increasingly globalized cultures.

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Phi territories: Neighbourhoods of collaboration and participation

Cited by 2 publications

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The art of letters: An epic journey of intimate thought and exchange

The art of letters: An epic journey of intimate thought and exchange

Emerging Forms of Collaboration

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