Project Summary

New media technologies influence how, where and with whom we are able to collaborate,

how we create and share digital media content and how we present creative outcomes to a globally connected online audience.

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My research project investigates online interdisciplinary collaboration between art practitioners utilizing the internet as a public space to create and share their work and as part of a framework for digital data sharing between collaborators, stakeholders and audiences within a virtual community of practice.

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A fundamental component of this creative virtual framework for an artist working online is the support of an online community of practice, both predominantly defined by specific shared interests.

 

The creators, collaborators, social medias, hosting platforms, online galleries, festivals and audiences seem to be driven by the desire to be both consumers and producers, dispersed globally yet together online.

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From the perspective of a multidisciplinary artist and film maker, I explore the virtual online studio as a unique element of a complex yet connected global trans-media framework with the potential to impact personal, social, cultural, political and environmental spheres and challenge our perception of physical and virtual space.

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As a practitioner engaged in collaboration I look at what happens when images, sounds, words and ideologies meet in the cyberspace of the virtual studio.

 

I look at the potential for online collaboration to become a catalyst for change, sharing new narratives, delicate truths, affect the human condition, be therapeutic, to entertain, and the implications of working in the virtual studio for the individual artist and the global community.

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To gain a better understanding of how this virtual phenomenon inspires, interacts and consolidates, I immerse myself within a virtual community of practice, I collaborate and create content, observe and take part in social media discussion, host an interdisciplinary social media group 'POOL' on Facebook and an online moving image gallery 'POOLVIDEO' on Vimeo.                          https://www.facebook.com/groups/poolgroup/                                                                                          https://vimeo.com/groups/302782.                            

Poetry film is an ideal genre for my study as its presence has rapidly expanded with the rise of online collaboration afforded by new digital media technologies and increasing engagement in virtual communities by specific interest groups, writers, sound artists, film makers, film festivals and audiences. 

 

From my virtual community of practice I source fellow collaborators, share content, seek knowledge and gain exposure for my work.

From my virtual studio I independently collaborate with writers and sound artists from different parts of the world with diverse backgrounds to produce new narratives in the form of poetry films, not previously accessible to me via traditional collaborative frameworks from within my local physical community of practice.