[spectre] VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009

[marc garrett]

Sorry for any cross posting...

VisitorsStudio wins the Grand Prize - netarts.org 2009

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