[Basekamp Events] Beyond Participation: Toward Massively Collaborative Worlds of Art - May 18 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

======== BEYOND PARTICIPATION: TOWARD MASSIVELY COLLABORATIVE WORLDS OF ART ==

May 18, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Car Skelton of the Brooklyn Experimental  
Media Center, co-initiator (with Martin Koplin, University of Applied  
Sciences, Bremen) of Beyond Participation: Toward Massively Collaborative  
Worlds of Art. The project focuses on the case study of the digital platform  
Betaville.

While in recent weeks, we have tended to celebrate usership and  
participation, these terms may be fraught with a side-effect that Betaville  
is designed to prevent: the implicit acceptance of a separation between  
active designers, determinant clients, and taking-it-or-leaving-it-end-users.

The extensibility of concepts and practices of “participatory culture” to  
fully peer-to-peer collaboration with citizens beyond the art world is a  
practical matter and a challenge to artists. The session chairs work together  
on Betaville, a massively multiplayer online environment for  
previsualization, development, and public participation in new proposals for  
public art, urban design and development – stretching the current “city  
limits” of participation by artists in public culture. With Betaville, the  
project seeks to enquire into “massive participation”, that is, an  
extreme form of relational aesthetics praxis, within which the role of the  
artwork is as a framework, rather than a procedure or product, and subject to  
evolution/adaptation at the behest of anyone with the gumption to do their  
own work with/on it.

See you all Then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

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/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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