Real-time Collaborative Art Making

The Research Team

Dr. Gregory Sporton

Carla Wright

Jonathan Green

Keir Williams

Dr. Stuart Dunn

Matthew Gough

Suzanne Grubham

Mike Priddy

Contact

Visualisation Research Unit
Department of Art
UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Margaret Street
Birmingham
B3 3BX

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Programme supported by:

Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre

Real-time Collaborative Art Making

On July 20th, the Visualisation Research Unit hosted a Methods Network sponsored workshop at the historic Margaret Street site of the Department of Art at the University of Central England in Birmingham.

The workshop was the culmination of a research process begun some time before, with work developed in the previous three months and worked on during a week-long intensive by the Research Team. The programme included a presentation on e-Science in the Arts, an AccessGrid link up with the National e-Science Centre in Edinburgh, and the presentation and discussion of the creative work of the team. The two main projects presented were Gregory Sporton's Collaborative Drawing through movement (research done with Carla Wright), and the collaborative work devised by Matt Gough, Jonathan Green, Keir Williams and Suzanne Grubham. Images, details and resources developed by the workshops are linked below, together with a link to the Digital Arts & Humanities discussion board, where you can read and contribute to the commentary and conversations that have emerged from the day. The workshop will result in further seminars and papers based on the activities .

Resources from the Workshops

Gregory Sporton's presentation And, With & Through: The Technologies of Performance is available as a PowerPoint slideshow, a PDF document and as a Flash presentation (note: you will need to use the space bar to progress through the Flash film).
Matthew Gough has blogged the whole week of research and development of ditdahbit (the afternoon's workshop). There are a lot of articles to explore. Check out the articles from the 16th to the 21st of July. There are also the images collected in the workshop on flickr. Matthew has kindly gathered all his posts into one PDF file including images.
Let's Talk about Collaborative Art Making is a forum on the Digital Arts & Humanities Web site for discussions, observations and thoughts about the workshops. You will have to register with the site if you haven't already done so.
Andrew Middleton has written an in-depth blog article of the day's workshops and interviewed Matthew Gough for a podcast.
Pictures are being posted on Flickr in the Collaborative Art group.
The 'flow' diagram of collaboration and data for didahbit is available as a jpeg and is also at the bottom of this page.
Jonathan Green recorded the afternoon discussion and is available as an mp3 (about 1 hour long and 52MB in size).
Jonathan has also edited a 4 minute segment of the audio from ditdahbit. This is available as an enhanced m4a file with images from the Flickr pool. QuickTime player or iTunes will show the images.
Gregory Sporton's presentation e-Science in the Arts is also available as a PowerPoint slideshow, a PDF document and as a Flash presentation

Videos

The following two short videos are created from the still images shot by Keir Williams of Suzanne Grubham during experiments and performance of ditdahbit. The stills were then incorporated into the visual collages presented on the screens.