http://collabarts.org Conversations on collaborative arts practise Mon, 11 May 2009 19:29:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following text is based upon a seminar delivered at the CLTAD conference, Enhancing the Curriculum in Art and Design. It draws upon an AHRB funded research project involving interviews with artists, undergraduate Fine Art students and questionnaires sent out to Fine Art course tutors mostly in the UK but ... http://collabarts.org/?p=205 Text written for the exhibition publication for An Experiment in Collaboration, curated by Sarah Williams at The Jerwood Space in Summer 2008 http://collabarts.org/?p=203 In 1996 Nicolas Bourriaud (1996) proposed the concept of ‘relational aesthetics’ in order to identify the common artistic practices that were evident in the exhibition Traffic. He subsequently claimed that the ‘interhuman sphere: relationships between people, communities, individuals, groups, social networks, interactivity’ that existed in the work of artists such ... http://collabarts.org/?p=201 New publication with link to essay Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration by Dr Keith Sawyer Professor in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago. An excerpt from the introduction can be viewed at http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~ksawyer/groupgenius/excerpt.html http://collabarts.org/?p=200 Most of us live in families, work and play in teams, form clubs and join societies with abandon. We collaborate. Many kinds of artists, too, work in groups as a matter of course, e.g. musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers, architects. In fact it is almost exclusively in the visual ... http://collabarts.org/?p=198 website of *Heather and Ivan Morrison* http://collabarts.org/?p=150 Austrian group *Gelitin's* website http://collabarts.org/?p=162 a brief article on *Gelitin* by Sabine B Vogel http://collabarts.org/?p=184 website of the research group *Institute of Distributed Creativity* which focuses on collaboration in media art, technology and theory with an emphasis on social contexts http://collabarts.org/?p=196 *UNESCO* thesaurus on collective bargaining, collectives etc http://collabarts.org/?p=195