I am conducting research on the cultural impact of Web 2.0, related to the "Cult of the Amateur" as argued by Andrew Keen, and would like to do an ethnography of an online art community. I know that some artists participate in virtual platforms such as Second Life, but I'm looking for exposition for a broader audience (preferably ongoing work).
I started my application of acoustic physics and experimental ars-techincs, which I had learned at IRCAM in Paris, at "Links" of Bologna in Italy. In particular, my group was called "Mediaevo"
[now remained only on webmachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20001018084227/http://www.mediaevo.com].
We produced electronic arts only for the web, and built a community of ars-technicals exclusively oriented to experimental web. I had also Vasulkas as teachers [http://www.vasulka.org], although their things are not oriented just for the web.
Coming to today, I'd point out the guys from Otolab. http://www.otolab.net
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Suggest you look at Scoopit http://www.scoop.it or even better follow the @Scoopit posts on twitter. The Scoopit platform has faciliatated content curation for a number of professionals and amateurs around the world. It has also been used by educationalists.
Hello, Wafaa Bilal project Domestic Tension could be helpful for your research: http://wafaabilal.com/domestic-tension/
I guess you know about the Medien Kunst Netz webpage. It has a pretty good collection/database of media art. http://medienkunstnetz.de/mediaartnet/
Like Camilo Leyva, I would like to suggest Wafaa Bilal, especially his Shoot an Iraqi performance. Crazy work!
http://wafaabilal.com/html/shootAnIraqi.html
You might want to check out the Archive of the Ars Electronica!
This reaches back to 1980ies of Artworks created/curated for online audiences...
http://archive.aec.at/
and it's filled with new works/artists/collectives every year...
might be quite helpfull for an intense overview
Hi Horst!
Micaela, per Horsts's advice, your question now has an extended historical dimension. Much poineerring work in this area was done in the 90s. If you want to go to the motherlode, I suggest you go to the Nettime archives , and also read their volume README.
But it goes back to pre web and pre internet days when this practise was called telematic art. Loiok for the work of Bob Adrian X, Roy Ascott, et al
The British group Yoha, and previous group Mongrel have a long history of interventionist net/social media work
You could take a look at Penny Travlou's ethnography of Furtherfield.
Biggs, Simon, and Penny Travlou. "Distributed authorship and creative communities." Dichtung Digital 41 (2012). http://www.dichtung-digital.org/2012/41/biggs-travlou.htm
Travelog, Penny. 2013. Ethnographies of Co-Creation and Collaboration as Models of Creativity. In Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice: A Report from the HERA Joint Research Project http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/ethnographies-co-creation-and-collaboration-models-creativity
http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/ethnographies-co-creation-and-collaboration-models-creativity
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