Assemblage for Collective Thought [ACT]
Description
Artist Statement
ACT - assemblage for collective thought - is an ongoing conceptual and aesthetic collaboration, an assemblage of technologies and techniques for collaboration. It enables participants to think collectively. By 'think' here we do include thinking conceptually. However, following a century that has had to come to terms with thinking through aesthetic processes, we also mean thinking affectively, via images, texts and sounds. More than this, ACT asks what kind of thought is produced in the mix in the middle of the very act of collaboration, when DJing, VJing, dancing in front of a camera perhaps, are all opened up to the mix. Is there a different quality of thought? A different experience of thinking? An especially collaborative thought?
Excerpt from the article: Assembling Collective Thought
ACT - assemblage for collective thought - is an ongoing conceptual and aesthetic collaboration, an assemblage of technologies and techniques for collaboration. It enables participants to think collectively. By 'think' here we do include thinking conceptually. However, following a century that has had to come to terms with thinking through aesthetic processes, we also mean thinking affectively, via images, texts and sounds. More than this, ACT asks what kind of thought is produced in the mix in the middle of the very act of collaboration, when DJing, VJing, dancing in front of a camera perhaps, are all opened up to the mix. Is there a different quality of thought? A different experience of thinking? An especially collaborative thought?
Excerpt from the article: Assembling Collective Thought
Creator
Murphie, Andrew
Munster, Anna
Date
2006
Contributor
Barker, Michele
Harley, Ross
Fuller, Gillian
Neilson, Brett
Wall-Smith, Mat
Richards, Kate
Fuller, Mathew
Gye, Lisa
Scholz, Trebor
Antic, Dragana
Rights
Copyright Andrew Murphy and Anna Munster. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder.
Genre
Performed distributed work
Platform
Exhibition/YouTube
Technology used/Platform
Wikis/Audio/Video/Editing and remixing packages
Format
Text/Video/Other
Citation
Murphie, Andrew and Munster, Anna, “Assemblage for Collective Thought [ACT],” ADELTA, accessed April 29, 2024, http://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/104.