Dear List and Mat,
Thanks for this reference, I think it's useful, and I liked the bit about:
"The workshops will depart from the traditional educational binary of ‘Ignoramus’ and ‘Schoolmaster’, and it is better to think of LAB as facilitators, the invited experts as progenitors and the participants as collaborators with a democratised stake-hold in the overall outcome of the project."
Which points out a key are of tension for critics: not only is the 'object' a site of difference for new media, as highlighted by Fo Wilson, the process and means of production is different, especially concerning 'expertise' as brought up by Andy Gracie. Although the participants may not fall into the traditional 'binary', it might not exactly be a democracy either - are there any typologies of roles and expertise that might be useful for thinking about how these projects work? In Dominic Smith's interview with Michael Mandiberg, for example, certain hierarchies of expertise within Open Source production methods are discussed. http://www.crumbweb.org/getInterviewDetail.php?id=31
Yours,
Beryl
On 3 Mar 2011, at 18:05, Mat Trivett wrote:
> Just as a quick adjunct to my previous post, we wrote this article
> http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net/articles/dec08/1317/open-laboratory
>
> With Nottingham based critical writer Will McCrory to unfurl some of these
> discussions and attempt to gain some critical distance on the laboratory
> project in Sideshow. I think also it may well resonate with Andy Gracie's
> Laboratory Life.
>
> Possibly?
>
> Mat
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