[spectre] New Audio/Visual Mixes on VisitorsStudio by Graziano Milano.

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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