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Adam Jeanes Ci-joint : 05 Juil 2006	Lundi 14 Mai 2007 2:12:15 pm Working the Net This month's LabforCulture Newsletter contains an article (by me) on Online Networking with thoughts by Tim Jones of Node London and Eva Stein of the House of World Cultures Berlin. Are you a "have" or a "have not"? And what are your feelings about the world of social/profession networking tools? Can they help us to develop new "forms" of online collaboration?
Tim Jones Ci-joint : 14 Mai 2007	Mardi 15 Mai 2007 11:27:23 am Re:Working the Net Hi Adam. Thanks for an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. A couple of comments here, and maybe we'll see whether this forum takes off or is void-bound.... I guess it's not untrue to say that NODE.London's "multi-centred and voluntary nature mirrors the MySpace model" (though I can feel the hordes of media artists shuddering at the thought - Rupert Murdoch etc.). But it may be more revealing to point out that among the ideas informing NODE.London's format was the idea of taking the processes that inform Free Software development and seeing what happens when they're applied to cultural production. Hence a pool of voluntary organisers who could work on whatever bit of the project suited them, the absence of a hierarchical organisational structure etc. I think there's a lot of credibility behind the localised/issue-specific/short-term approaches to networking behaviour you mention. If rumours of NODE.London's death might have been exaggerated, it's still important to park the project on a shelf in a very visible, accessible way, so that it might be taken down from the shelf and recycled without newcomers needing to reinvent the wheel. I've recently been giving some consultancy input into the New Work Network (http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk) - UK based, predominantly live artists and experimental performance makers among their community. And I've been advocating for regional 'clustering' activity - tangible 'barnraising' approaches that quickly reflect back the value of the network to itself, but also as a means to ensure a healthily diverse internal ecology. It's much like the 'node organisations' strategy developed for NODE.London: these were agencies and venues that saw value in coming together regardless of whether they were independent, publicly funded, commercial, or alternative. I suspect that for this network of organisations the questions were less about "haves" and "have nots" - and more concerned with coming to a shared understanding of what the cultural infrastructure looked like - which in turn dramatically increased the opportunities within it. Finally - though I don't want to increase data at expense of information - I wanted to give a URL for the NODE.London evaluation report, if anyone's interested in finding out more about the 'networked, open, distributed' approach: it's http://dav.nodel.org/evaluation/node_london_evaluation_report.doc. And a really good summary of what NODE.London was, who, when and why is viewable here: http://dusan.idealnypartner.sk/notepad/node.london/ - this research report was written by Dusan Barok in Slovakia from (I assume) trawling through online scraps with amazing thoroughness and tenacity. Looking forward to thoughts from others.....
Adam Jeanes Ci-joint : 05 Juil 2006	Lundi 04 Juin 2007 7:03:55 pm Re:Working the Net Entropia Universe outbid Second Life to team up with CRD, an offshoot of the Beijing municipality, to build a virtual universe able to handle 7 million users at any one moment. (creating 10,000 real jobs in China). An interesting idea - could we create "Second Life" style international project-management organisations I wonder? http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2093757,00.html
Ben Kruisdijk Ci-joint : 16 Fév 2008	Jeudi 28 Février 2008 12:47:49 pm Re:Working the Net Thank you for a Interesting article, I'm just starting to understand the potential of using the internet as a way to further cultural development and have therefore joined this site, I often feel that the internet is like a fantastic Swiss army knife. Keep up the good work! Ben Kruisdijk

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Adam Jeanes

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05 Juil 2006

Lundi 14 Mai 2007 2:12:15 pm

Working the Net

This month's LabforCulture Newsletter contains an article (by me) on Online Networking with thoughts by Tim Jones of Node London and Eva Stein of the House of World Cultures Berlin.

Are you a "have" or a "have not"? And what are your feelings about the world of social/profession networking tools? Can they help us to develop new "forms" of online collaboration?

Tim Jones

Ci-joint :
14 Mai 2007

Mardi 15 Mai 2007 11:27:23 am

Re:Working the Net

Hi Adam. Thanks for an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. A couple of comments here, and maybe we'll see whether this forum takes off or is void-bound....

I guess it's not untrue to say that NODE.London's "multi-centred and voluntary nature mirrors the MySpace model" (though I can feel the hordes of media artists shuddering at the thought - Rupert Murdoch etc.). But it may be more revealing to point out that among the ideas informing NODE.London's format was the idea of taking the processes that inform Free Software development and seeing what happens when they're applied to cultural production. Hence a pool of voluntary organisers who could work on whatever bit of the project suited them, the absence of a hierarchical organisational structure etc.

I think there's a lot of credibility behind the localised/issue-specific/short-term approaches to networking behaviour you mention. If rumours of NODE.London's death might have been exaggerated, it's still important to park the project on a shelf in a very visible, accessible way, so that it might be taken down from the shelf and recycled without newcomers needing to reinvent the wheel.

I've recently been giving some consultancy input into the New Work Network (http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk) - UK based, predominantly live artists and experimental performance makers among their community. And I've been advocating for regional 'clustering' activity - tangible 'barnraising' approaches that quickly reflect back the value of the network to itself, but also as a means to ensure a healthily diverse internal ecology. It's much like the 'node organisations' strategy developed for NODE.London: these were agencies and venues that saw value in coming together regardless of whether they were independent, publicly funded, commercial, or alternative. I suspect that for this network of organisations the questions were less about "haves" and "have nots" - and more concerned with coming to a shared understanding of what the cultural infrastructure looked like - which in turn dramatically increased the opportunities within it.

Finally - though I don't want to increase data at expense of information - I wanted to give a URL for the NODE.London evaluation report, if anyone's interested in finding out more about the 'networked, open, distributed' approach: it's http://dav.nodel.org/evaluation/node_london_evaluation_report.doc. And a really good summary of what NODE.London was, who, when and why is viewable here: http://dusan.idealnypartner.sk/notepad/node.london/ - this research report was written by Dusan Barok in Slovakia from (I assume) trawling through online scraps with amazing thoroughness and tenacity.

Looking forward to thoughts from others.....

Adam Jeanes

Ci-joint :
05 Juil 2006

Lundi 04 Juin 2007 7:03:55 pm

Re:Working the Net

Entropia Universe outbid Second Life to team up with CRD, an offshoot of the Beijing municipality, to build a virtual universe able to handle 7 million users at any one moment. (creating 10,000 real jobs in China). An interesting idea - could we create "Second Life" style international project-management organisations I wonder?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2093757,00.html

Ben Kruisdijk

Ci-joint :
16 Fév 2008

Jeudi 28 Février 2008 12:47:49 pm

Re:Working the Net

Thank you for a Interesting article, I'm just starting to understand the potential of using the internet as a way to further cultural development and have therefore joined this site, I often feel that the internet is like a fantastic Swiss army knife.
Keep up the good work!

Ben Kruisdijk

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