Any thoughts on this opportunity? Do rhizomers want to participate?
Sarai and Nettime are list-neighbours I can vouch for as
interesting…. – Rachel

Begin forwarded message:

> Here is the blurb on the forum….
>
> Distributed Creativity
> An Online Forum
> Www.eyebeam.org/distributedcreativity
> November 12-December 19, 2003
>
>
> As technological innovations continue to expand, creative practice has
> shifted toward the edge. Artists are organizing impromptu street
> actions by
> mobile phone; musicians are repurposing networks for artistic ends and
> curators are breaching commercial confines by streaming broadband art
> projects to new audiences. DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY, Eyebeam's sixth
> annual
> online forum, takes a look at the interconnected web of opportunities
> and
> collaborations emerging in areas such as WiFi, Weblogs, rich Internet
> applications, voice over IP, and social software. The forum will be
> held in
> partnership with The University of Maine and will engage several
> communities
> across the web to discuss the artistic, legal, technical and social
> dynamics
> of our increasingly networked world.
>
> Here are three plausible technical solutions to consider: (with
> changes for
> Rhizome, of course!)
>
> -a php/mysql based system…with partner provided login and some server
> permission on your end, an Eyebeam script would pull outside posts into
> Eyebeam's presentation, ie. Request permission to access a field or two
> within the partner discussion database records to pull them into
> Eyebeam's
> discussion database. This would be executed at a predetermined
> frequency
> say twice a day or maybe more often, thus posts would not appear
> instantaneously but would have a slight delay.
> -email based systems…partner accepts an Eyebeam mail account to send
> and
> receive posts; eyebeam script would post-process the account's mail
> components into a threaded discussion archive.
> -add code to partner system that duplicates and sends posts from your
> system
> to Eyebeam.
>
> I am also asking the following communities to take one week…Creative
> Commons, Sarai.net, DATA, Nettime. There would be one community per
> week.
> Topics to discuss include–artistic collaborations and legal
> implications,
> new platforms and innovations, commercial uses, etc.
>
>