Guest Lecture @ AVA, Baptist University, 2013

1. Artist Collaboration @ AVA
Winnie Soon| Nov. 2013

2. Interest
 Internet Culture
 Network Art
 Data aesthetics and
politics
 Software Studies
 New Media Art
http://www.siusoon.com/

3. Collaboration Vs Co-operation

4. " The verb 'to collaborate' come from the Late Latin
collaboratus, past participle of collaborare - to labor
together, from the Latin words 'com' and 'laborare' to labor.
The relevant definition here means 'to work jointly with others
or together especially in an intellectual endeavor."
(Friedman, 2008, p.140)

6. Collaboration with choreographers
 Intervis (an audio-visual live performance)
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/
72157613453852084/

7. Collaboration with choreographers
 Datascape (interactive live performance)
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/sets/
72157628451072821/

8. Collaboration with an artist
 Karen Sam Norgard

9. Collaboration with an artist
 Image gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/
sets/72157626986593954/
 Net. Portrait (ver 1): http://www.siusoon.com/home/?
p=710

10. Helen Pritchard

11. Participatory learning and action
Learning by doing (O’Brien, 1998:2)
Through a spiral of cycles of critical and self-critical action
and reflection (Kemmis, S & Mctaggart, R., 2005)

12. Helen Pritchard
 Artworks collaboration
 Writing co-authoring

13. Helen Pritchard – jsut code
 @ Youth Square / Writing Machine Collective
 @ Hong Kong Arts Center
 @ Museum of Science and Industry / UK

14. Helen Pritchard – jsut code
 Participation & Performance

15. Helen Pritchard – code
Thousands of other questions
Video: http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=900

16. Helen Pritchard – co-writing
 Writing at the same time:
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1XHrpDAIb0_BPQZMjMWqnNguMjOH0TDUULs8n-y3wsRA/edit
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/15y2R0V1wkdwzEJ2iTsyg0KBCYb3T4DGVXRYBxRVbSU/edit
 Google doc demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=blTniM9Oauk&feature=youtu.be

17. Helen Pritchard – Brother Cream Cat
 A live demo: The Likes of Brother Cream Cat

18. Helen Pritchard – Brother Cream Cat
 Reflexive Process & action learning
 http://sensingstreetcats.blogspot.hk/
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1Ki8_63YXuODX3DkZtmJ0HwjZRBwalIODlvVFB67R8-4/edit

19. PAR: self-reflective cycles
(Kemmis, S & McTaggart, 2005)
 Planning a change
 Acting and observing the process and consequences of
the change
 Reflecting on these processes and consequences
 Replanning
 Acting and observing again
 Reflecting again, and so on . . .

20. Collaboration on curatorial projects
 Voxbox: One audio input, infinite
cultural output
 InNoPO: http://
www.siusoon.com/home/?p=469
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/
siusoon/sets/72157618574041312/
 Process: http://www.flickr.com/
photos/siusoon/sets/
72157618486184161/
 Artworks: http://www.flickr.com/
photos/siusoon/sets/
72157618486193263/

21. Collaboration on curatorial projects
 Organized by Audrey Samson and Winnie Soon
 SPEED SHOW [2.0] / HK
 8-Dec at Kubrick (18:30 – 21:30)
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1JGaSjdEBrsZHedYKAffcI-JqjcHaqdXLFPLKmOYzxaY/edit

23. My thoughts
 Authorship / Ownership
 Open and respect other thoughts/actions
 Try to understand your partner’s personality and her/his
approaches: which type of collaboration?
 What do you want to achieve
 Cultivate imagination, focus on co-process & co-sharing
 Artworks, Writing/publication, Exhibition, Organization …

24. Collaboration Vs Co-operation
“Collaboration is a philosophy of interaction and
personal lifestyle whereas cooperation is a structure
of interaction designed to facilitate the
accomplishment of an end product or goal”
- Ted Panitz (1996)

25. Thank You
Q&A

26. Ref
 Brien, R. (2001). Um exame da abordagem metodológica da pesquisa ação [An
Overview of the Methodological Approach of Action Research]. In Roberto
Richardson (Ed.), Teoria e Prática da Pesquisa Ação [Theory and Practice of
Action Research]. João Pessoa, Brazil: Universidade Federal da Paraíba. (English
version) Available: http://www.web.ca/~robrien/papers/arfinal.html
 Kemmis, S & Mctaggart, R., 2005. Participatory Action Research: Communicative
Action and the public sphere. In Denzin, Norman K. and Lincoln, Yvona S., (eds)
The SAFE Handbook of Qualitative Research. 3rd ed. London: SAGE Publications.
[Online] Available at: www.sagepub.com/upm-data/21157_Chapter_10.pdf‎
Ref images:

http://blog.thoughtstream.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/collaboration-wordle.png

http://iki0723.blogspot.hk/2008/11/lenfer-cest-les-autres.html

27. Appendix

28. Collaboration with a technologist
 SuperToys
 Images gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siusoon/
sets/72157612651141187/
 http://www.siusoon.com/home/?p=190