A Community of Practice located in an accessible, physical space is an important element of creative community engagement and process, facilitating and nurturing social, cultural and emotional bonds within a face to face community.

 

An online Community of Practice existing in cyberspace is also an important element of creative online community engagement and process, facilitating and nurturing social, cultural and emotional bonds within a virtual online community, easily accessible and with a global reach.

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As a global online Community of Practice we share global complexities, navigate issues and problem solve not only on a personal scale, but also on a global one. New technologies make possible new narratives through diverse viewpoints and new collaborative outcomes via online communication and collaboration.

 

In an online Community of Practice, bonds and alliances are formed among collaborating artists as in real live communities. Issues are debated and knowledge is shared.

 

As part of my online research into poetry film, I sought clarification from Poetry Film Live, an online social media group specializing in poetry film discussion and part of my community of practice.

 

I had created a short experimental film 'CHOUGHS', produced from an early morning field recording of birds in Central Victoria and created a moving image sequence from photographic stills taken at the same location.

 

Often my work is described as poetic ... I posed the question, 'perhaps a poetry film, perhaps not?' 

 

Even though the film contained no spoken words or text, the vocalization of the birds seemed just like a foreign language. I was surprised as much by the emotive nature of the responses as by the large number of comments by a diverse global community of practice that happened to be online. Not only was it an interesting exercise at the time, I continued to receive comments on the subject weeks later.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1727444064214170/permalink/1868653066759935/   

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Previous research suggests that deep interaction can exist among an online community where commentary is the major player and content is the trigger (Hutchinson, 2011).

If the internet is regarded as a new public space perhaps here are real communities that exist online.

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I consider artists who I collaborate with online and artist film makers working in the same genre and occupying the same online social medias spaces and galleries all belong to my community of practice. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://thebookofhours.org/

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CLOUDS and Our Lady of the Rocks are two of my poetry film collaborations included in this project by Lucy English. The Book of Hours, four years in the making. 48 poetry films and 27 collaborators ... my community of practice.