Adashboard (for fiction)

An will talk about collaborative narrative practices within Constant during a workshop on ‘Real Time Composition’ with Joao Fiadeiro and others proposed by performer Adva Zakai @ Dominokingdom. In her talk she will try to use the words ‘event’, ‘suggestion’, ‘confirmation’, ‘save’, ‘loop’, ‘error’, ‘judge’, ‘sharing’, ‘generosity’, ‘manipulation’, ‘responsability’, ‘care’, ‘complexity’, ‘here & now’, ‘the elasticity of the system’, ‘timing’, ‘trust’, ‘engage’, ‘empathy’, ‘value’, ‘forking’, ‘bug’, ‘utopia’, ‘unity of action’.
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Genese van een manuscript
Slideshow, 3357 pag., gemaakt met Open Office, pdfsam & Imagemagick

To see till 22-4-10 in *Ce que j’ai fait en 2009 / Wat ik in 2009 deed* in Pianofabriek in 1060 Brussels
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An experience in collaborative storytelling
Une expérience en fiction collaborative

In residency in De Pianofabriek till 9-10 & La Raffinerie till 30-10
En résidence au Pianofabriek jusqu’au 9-10 & à La Raffinerie jusque 30-10

Performance in/à La Bellone on/les 25-11, 27-11 & 28-11.

Coproduction: Constant, Mangrove Tentactile, De Pianofabriek
Avec l’aide de la Communauté française/Arts Numériques
Avec le soutien de Charleroi-Danses/La Rafinnerie, Maison de la Bellone

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An participated in the 11th Festival Bandits-Mages, in the program ’Anticipated Worlds/Augmented Territories’. In the lecture she interweaved a personal register with a historical register and a storyteller voice.

Fiction allows you to take a distance from everyday reality and to inject new perspectives in work practises. Which examples of so called feminist science-fiction could inspire a methodology in which sharing, exchange and the right for mistakes are central? Could we link the potential of new models embedded in the ’Cyborg Manifesto’ by Donna Haraway to the statement of Linus Thorvald in the following sentence, from the notes he distributed with the first release of Linux: ’Interrupts aren’t hidden.’ And what happens when you try to apply these ideas to a collaborative server project for women? An Mertens will not answer all these questions, but will take them as a starting point for an unreleased storytelling session.

Consult the catalogue of the festival.

Or just another way of profiling?
I did the test with the programs of two Belgian political parties.
From http://www.wordly.net
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I found a first ‘historical overview‘ about webcomics.

The word ‘historical’ is dressed with quite a refreshing significance here. The overview comments on webcomics over the last ten years, which is logical.
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This site is made in WordPress.

WordPress is open source blogging software. It is a very nice tool grown out of a large community of users all over the world. The idea of sharing content goes with the idea of sharing the programs and the knowledge behind it.
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Last night I was thinking about possible interesting uses of collaborative software for collective narrative creation. If ‘classic’ literary artifacts are closed by the dynamic interplay between form, content and materiality; net-native literary forms could be considered as open as storytelling and the oral tradition are.

I found some more mature reflections about it at the public mind space of if:book, a project of the NY based Institute for the Future of the Book.

Do not hesitate to adjust existing expressions, e.g.

old wife’s tales –> wise women stories
dissemination –> flowering
United Kingdom –> UQ – United Queendom
history –> herstory
humanity -> huwomanity
snowman -> snowwoman

…. please add more

These words are some results of a workshop with Marijs Boulogne during Verbindingen/Jonction 9, festival of Constant.