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Authors:

 Giaccardi, Elisa.

Title:

 Inventing collaboration: process oriented design of interface in telematic art.

Keywords:

 interconnective, collaboration, processes-material, creative virtuality, interface design.

Abstract:

 What does it mean designing collaboration in the interconnected dimension of permanent and digital networks? How we can conceive contemporary artistic collaboration?
In the digital domain of interconnectivity collaborative processes poietically deal with a performative matter composed both of "matter" and "relations", with processes-material that makes processes of computer science treatment and human processes carry on each other and intertwine. Interactors meet and relations come about on a philosophical horizon between 0 and 1, in a place that is at the same time physically distribuited and jointly connected. We aren't dealing with telepresence, but with a relational place. Where is collaboration?

Designing collaboration means designing the conditions for the apparition of that place, metadesigning the place. Rather than metaphors, we must design process oriented. As many procesess are involved and intertwined, as more interface acts as a complex operator that raises creative virtuality, moving us in the heart of collaborative creation or in the indeterminate event of being as creation.
Giaccardi, Elisa. elisa.giaccardi@isiline.it Elisa Giaccardi is a web designer. She took a BA in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy of the University of Turin (Italy) with a thesis on the creative interaction on the WWW, and a MA in Social Communication at S.P.I.C.S. in Rome.In 1996 she coordinated an european monitoring on artistic languages and new technologies for the European Parliament - Headmaster's Office of XII Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media. In 1997 she thought up and performed the telematic event Remote Risonanze(http://members.xoom.com/rr_project/) together with the international artist Piero Gilardi and Gianni Corino.At present she has a research fellowship at the Communication Sciences department of the University of Turin and she is a CAiiA-STAR online doctoral candidate.