W+K hosted an open source talk, courtesy of DOXA Collective around the subject of  ‘futures in collective working.’

http://www.doxacollective.org/

Some of the questions being asked where:

What are the possibilities in open source, crowd-sourcing and resource sharing for artists, organisations and industry?

What new ways of working does digital technology offer for a renewed vision for culture?

Three wonderful guest speakers, who all had very interesting points of views on collective working.

Joel Gethin Lewis – Co-Founder of Hellicar&Lewis, former Interaction Designer at United Visual Artist http://www.hellicarandlewis.com/

Ele Carpenter – curator, writer and artist based in London, where she teaches in the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths www.elecarpenter.org.uk

Francesca Bria – PhD Researcher at Imperial College Business School, filmmaker and network activist. http://francescabria.wordpress.com

They shared exampled of projects where they had worked in these ways.

Joel spoke about a project where Hellicar&Lewis art directed a large scale interactive installation for the rebrand of NZ Telecom, at the Ferry Building, Auckland. This installation was created by using software created in open frameworks by YesYesNo, The installation worked with people’s bodies, hands or even mobile phones and reflected these in images on the building in front of them.

Ele Carpenter spoke about her project Open Source Embroidery, Html Patchwork. Html Patchwork comprises of 216 fabric patches individually embroidered with their websafe colour codes and stitched into a collective patchwork quilt. The Patchwiki is a collective website with a page for each individual stitcher.

http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/

The evening was a great success with each speaker giving their thoughts and experiences on collective working from three different backgrounds. At the end of the evening the audience were able to participate in an open discussion which was great.

Joel Gethin Lewis said "A great opportunity to combine the Open Source experiences of three different backgrounds – researcher, curator and practitioner."

Posted by Donna U’dell

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