[spectre] Essay of the Day: Ethnographies of Co-Creation as Models of Creativity

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Essay of the Day: Ethnographies of Co-Creation as Models of Creativity

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Article: Ethnographies of Co-Creation and Collaboration as Models of 
Creativity. Penny Travlou.

 From the Abstract:

“The theme of my inquiry is how creative networked communities emerge in 
transnational and transcultural contexts, within a globalized and 
distributed communications environment. How do communities form and 
change through the collaborative activities of their members? How do 
members of these online communities come together to reinterpret and 
facilitate creativity?

I attempted to gain insights to these questions through ethnographic 
research with three creative communities that constitute and deploy 
themselves online and in physical space: Furtherfield, an artist-led 
online community and arts organization; Art is Open Source, the Italian 
artist duo of Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana Persico, who develop 
ubiquitous publishing through cocreative practices; and Make-Shift, a 
cyberformance community represented by Helen Varley Jamieson and Paula 
Crutchlow. These three communities are closely interlinked. In fact, as 
I relate below, I happened upon the latter two by following leads and 
lines of collaboration opened to me through my work within Furtherfield. 
Furtherfield was my principal host, my fieldwork home, and the community 
I spent the most time with and which I managed to observe most closely 
and longest.

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