[spectre] transmediale.10 / FLOSS Manuals publication 'Collaborative Futures' available now!

[stephen kovats]

Dear spectrites,

Between 17 – 23 January 2010 transmediale, together with FLOSS  
Manuals, hosted an experimental Book Sprint focussing on the festival  
theme FUTURITY NOW!. The Book Sprint, an intensive and innovative  
methodology for the rapid development of books saw five people locked  
in a room in Berlin's IMA Design Village for five days to produce a  
book with the sole guiding meme being the title – Collaborative  
Futures. They had to create the concept, write the book, and output  
it to print in 5 days.

Collaborative Futures was facilitated by Adam Hyde and written by  
Mike Linksvayer, Alan Toner, Marta Peirano, Michael Mandiberg and  
Mushon Zer-Aviv with a number of guests who contributed chapters and  
passages. The process opened up a new and networked discussion  
focusing on a new vocabulary of the forms, media and goals of  
collaborative digital practice. As the transmediale.10 publication  
the Book Sprint was based on an idea by Adam Hyde and Stephen Kovats  
to enact the festival notion of futurity in the form of a flash  
publication.

Aleksandar Erkalovic in part developed and tested the alpha version  
of the 'booki' collaborative platform live and on-site with which  
'Collaborative Futures' was created.

The contents of the book are now available online, and a special  
limited edition of 200 copies featuring a great cover designed by  
Laleh Torabi will be available for sale during transmediale.10,  
opening next Tuesday Feb 02, at the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

For an e-pub and pdf version:
http://www.transmediale.de/en/collaborative-futures

with some great pics and more info on the process at FLOSS Manuals:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/about


transmediale.10
FUTURITY NOW!
02 - 07 February 2010
House of World Cultures Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de
twitter #tm10


Collaborative Futures festival edition price 15,-- euro



greetings,

and looking forward to seeing you in Berlin next week,

Stephen


artistic director
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transmediale.10 |  2 - 7 feb 2010
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