Tag Archives: collaboration

PICNIC ‘08 – Itay Talgam Interview

marie-anne soyez | 29 September 2008, 7:37 pm | 5 comments | tags: , , , ,

This is an excerpt of an interview with Israeli conductor Itay Talgam done by Markus Huendgen during Picnic ‘08. Talgam illustrates how conducting an orchestra can be a metaphor for the collaboration of people in general.

PICNIC 08 – Conducting Creativity by Itay Talgam

Stephan Barmentloo | 25 September 2008, 1:19 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Through different examples of conducting an orchestra Itay Talgam, highly acclaimed Israeli conductor and founder of the Maestro program, explores some of the aspects that are related to the practice of collaboration. In his presentation he addresses aspects such as authority, creativity and interpretation.

EVE Online: Work or Play?

Raoul Siepers | 04 November 2007, 4:26 pm | tags: , ,

Where does play end, and work start? In the online world of the MMORPG EVE Online, this threshold might be blinded by the dazzling glitter of the stars, but it is just as easy to pass. Within this hypercapitalistic society, Foucauldian questions of power arise.

An analysis of a vj collaboration; “A Collaborating Cooperation or a Cooperating Collaboration?”

Minke Kampman | 24 October 2007, 12:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

Different definitions, or interpretations if you will, have been linked to words like ‘collaboration’ and ‘cooperation’. One example of this is a part of ‘The Art of Free Cooperation’ (2007). In the chapter ‘Collaboration on the Fence’ (by Geert Lovink and Trebor Scholz) Chris Shipley is mentioned with her essay ‘The Year of Working Together!’ (2006). What it even more important is determining the kind and the level of participation. This is the conclusion (or one of them) of Jeremy Rifkin’s book “The Age of Access” (2001). In this book he also mentions ‘the dialectics of a play ethos’ (p.260). These form the starting-points of my analysis.

Cyberbullying or Collaborative Violence?

Qilan Zhao | 22 October 2007, 12:59 am | tags: , , ,

Media and communication technology has provided us with tools to enable and facilitate collaboration without physical participation or geographical constraints. When it comes to the impact of new media on childhood and youth, there has always been much discussion of the potential benefits, but as well as dangers of these new media tools. Along came a rise of new phenomena…

Online collaboration scales

Tjerk Timan | 22 October 2007, 12:05 am | tags: , ,

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In talking about collaboration on the web, the first thing I did was running the term ‘collaboration’ through the WikiScanner, in order to find out to what extent online collaboration was used to create the article on collaboration on Wikipedia.
The picture shows the first result that the scanner comes up with. A whois-search returns British telecommunications…

Cooperation and feeling of unity

Fleur Dujardin | 21 October 2007, 5:00 pm | 3 comments | tags:

Online multiplayer games tend to encourage communication and cooperation. Constance SteinKuehler, from the University of Wisconsin, has found that these types of games are ’sites for socially and materially distributed cognition, complex problem solving, identity work, individual and collaborative learning’. I want to stress that within these types of games cooperation has an effect on group behaviour, the feeling…

L.A. Raeven fighting Spehr

Paulien Dresscher | 21 October 2007, 10:43 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

Spehr articulates the freedom part of cooperation in three points: freedom of negotiation, freedom of refusal and freedom of movement. This political utopia Spehr is talking about, is certainly interesting but also evokes some questions.

Learning from Hardware: rethinking cooperation.

Bas Bisseling | 18 October 2007, 6:20 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

When we scrutinize the structure of data management, we could find a solution in looking at project cooperation as a metaphor. The metaphor I will be using, is data management as project cooperation. One way to establish the preservation of important data, is to make use of several hard drives, which, when combined, will reassure the integrity of the data. We could compare this to the preservation of the collective effort of project cooperation.

The collaborative Web 2.0

Laura van der Vlies | 17 October 2007, 11:29 am | tags: , , , ,

According to Wikipedia, collaboration is a structured, recursive process where two or more people work together towards a common goal – typically an intellectual endeavor that is creative in nature – by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Important in the description is the ‘fact’ that collaboration does not require leadership because without, a better result is achieved because of decentralization and egalitarianism. Who else knows this better than the source itself?