（精品）MADA 2（整理）

（精品）MADA 2（整理） MADA 2 (1,759 words) Revised Proposal My research is an enquiry into the political structures of creative collaboration, particularly looking at the ethics and methods of Open Source programming, and how effectively they could be applied, practically, to the process of filmmaking. Content to be investigated Firstly, I want to define what I mean by „collaboration?. I want to look at Open Source Programming – what it is, why it came about and how it was implemented in the field of computer programming. I then want to look at different examples of creative collaboration, and to try and relate this creative practice to the Open Source Model. I am particularly interested in how this could be implemented in the field of filmmaking. The main content involved here are the issues of authorship, hierarchy, copyright and also how different creative disciplines relate to each other. Objectives My objectives are as follows: , Make a collection of different collaborative structures, particularly from the field of Open Source Programming , Maintain an editable website for research documentation , Maintain an editable website for collaborative filmmaking , Translate ASP & Access website into PHP & mySQL , Develop a multimedia collaborative tool that will facilitate the participation of people online in a creative endeavour , Produce a series of short films that investigate creative collaboration , Link up with the Drama Centre London in their training of collaborative improvisational techniques along the lines of Mike Leigh , Develop a way of indexing film footage in a way that a viewer is able to choose what they want to watch , Create a user interactive and event recording workstation for use in a gallery type situation so that viewers can participate in the authorship of a project Methodologies There are three methods that I will be using in my research. The first is by constructing „Group Memory?. The term „Group Memory? is taken from the book “How to make collaboration work” which was written by David Straus (2002), founder of Interaction Associates, Inc. In it, he describes the concept of Group Memory as being „a record of the ideas raised and decisions made at a meeting, written on large sheets of paper and posted in full view of group members? (Straus. 2002 p130) Straus is dealing with collaboration within a business meeting environment, but I want to define Group Memory in the context of creative collaboration as being recordings and files of different media which are made available for all members of the creative group to consult. Group Memory is how the group relates to the past. Having constructed Group Memory, I want to be able to facilitate activities in the group. Group Activity is about instigating discussion, developing creative expressions and enabling the generation of ideas. Group Activity necessarily adds to the content of Group Memory. These activities, incidentally, do not necessarily have to be done as a group (although this is probably preferred) but can be done as individuals - as long as they are eventually made available and shared with the rest of the group and become part of Group Memory. Group Activity is how the group relates to the present. Thirdly, there is the issue of Group Strategy. Group Strategy is how the group relates to the future. This is the area that informs decision-making. Say, the group has a number of options available to it. It needs to make decisions, about the choice of those options, based on the group?s prediction of what might happen if each option was chosen. It is in this area, that the political structures of creative collaboration are engaged. Those people in the group that are more articulate than others, for example, inevitably have more power in expressing their ideas. They will naturally influence the group?s decision-making process more than the others, but this may not necessarily make for the most effective collaboration. Collaboration is normally thought of as two or more people working together towards a common goal. However, I believe that it is possible to enquire into the nature of effective collaboration and what works with two or more people, by analysing what happens in an individual, as long as the three areas listed above are opened up to public scrutiny, criticism and possible participation. Initially, therefore, I will immerse myself in the activity of filming different events and projects that I feel are in some way connected to „creative collaboration?. This activity will result in records of the events and projects in question, and as such it becomes the material from which a „Group Memory? can be constructed in digital form. In the process of editing together the footage of material from the Group Memory, I want to expose different insights from the subject area. This is my initial Strategy, and I will create films that in some way document the process and analysis of my research as an initial Activity. If I begin to collaborate with one or more other people, then the Group Strategy may well change along with the types of Group Activities that I engage in. However, I will continue my enquiry into the political structures of creative collaboration Ultimately, I want to be able to encourage and facilitate the participation of a viewer in the collaborative authorship of film pieces that they watch. My art, then, is the enquiry, itself, into the political structures of creative collaboration. So I see edited and finished films as being evidence that the art has occurred rather than being the art objects themselves. Resource & Financial Requirements (Viability) I will need to maintain two user-editable websites www.jemmackay.co.uk and www.swarmtv.org. This will take time in terms of the constant discipline of updating the website, at least on a weekly basis. In terms of costs, each website costs ?40/year, and both domain registrations amount to ?40/year together. The total being ?120/year. At the moment these are functioning with ASP, but I am looking to translate this application into PHP as it is an Open Source language. This will take about four weeks to achieve. I am currently developing a media collaborative tool which people could use online, using flash and XML. It is at the stage at the moment whereby individuals can connect their own thoughts together and I need to be able to store people?s input on a central XML file. I also need to develop this into participants being able to connect video and sound clips together. This will be achieved in either Director or Flash, and I estimate that I will need about 3 months development time to be able to do this. The short films that are linked to creative collaboration, will generally be funded either from the charity/voluntary sector, which generally pays expenses, or art grants from the Arts Council and CABE. The other requirement would be a kiosk-type version of the online collaboration tool that could be installed in a gallery type space. This will use a great deal of the development from the online version, but I would need to enable this facility to happen locally from a computer, without necessarily connecting to the Internet. I would imagine this would take a couple weeks to adapt from the online tool. However, as part of a gallery installation, I would need to hire the equipment as well as ensure it?s safety and the safety of the people who attend the show. The equipment I envisage using, would be a touch screen kiosk, which would cost about ?650. This would keep the safety issues down to a minimum, as everything would be contained within the unit itself. I would simply need to ensure that power supply leads are taped securely to the floor, and the running of the actual application itself meets Health & Safety standards. Bibliography Biggie & Tupac (2002) Directed by Nick Broomfield, UK, Nick Broomfield Films, 107mins [Film : DVD] Kurt & Courtney (2001) Directed by Nick Broomfield, UK, Nick Broomfield Films, 95mins [Film : DVD] Buzan, T. (1995) The mindmap book: Radiant thinking, BBC Books, London. Coveney, M. (1996) The world according to Mike Leigh, Harper-Collins, London. Doherty, C. (Ed.) (1998) Out of here: Creative collaborations beyond the gallery, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. Godfrey, T. (1998) Conceptual Art, Phaidon Press Ltd, London. Green, C. (2001) The third hand: Collaboration in Art from Conceptualism to Postmodernism, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. Greene, R. (2004) Internet Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London. A beautiful mind (2001) Directed by Howard, US, Universal Studios, 136mins [Film : DVD] Landow, G. P. (1997) Hypertext 2.0, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Naked (1996) Directed by Mike Leigh, UK, Thin Man Films, 131mins [Video : VHS] Meantime (1999) Directed by Mike Leigh, UK, Thin Man Films, 103mins [Film : DVD] All or nothing (2001) Directed by Mike Leigh, UK, Thin Man Films 123mins [Film : DVD] Riff Raff (1995) Directed by Ken Loach, UK, Turner Home Entertainment, 95 mins. [Video : VHS] City of God (2002) Directed by Fernando Meirrelles & Katia Lund, Brazil, Miramax Films, 135mins [Film: DVD] Revolution OS (2001) Directed by J. T. S. Moore, US, Wonderview Productions, 85mins [Film : DVD] Paul, C. (2003) Digital Art, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London. Raymond E. (1999) The cathedral & the bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an accidental revolutionary, O?Reilly & Associates Inc., Sebastopol Rushkoff, D. (2003) Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics, Demos, London. Basquiat (1996) Directed by Julian Schnabel, US, Miramax Films, 106mins [Film : DVD]. Small, P. (1998) Magical a-life avatars, Manning Publications Co., Greenwich CT USA. Stevenson, J. (2002) Lars von Trier, British Film Institute, London. Straus, D. (2002) How to make collaboration work, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Fransisco. The Kingdom (1994) Directed by Lars von Trier & Morten Arnfred, Denmark, Zentropa Films, 265mins [Film : DVD] Breaking the waves (1996) Directed by Lars von Trier, Artisan Entertainment, 156mins [Film : DVD] The Five Obstructions (2003) Directed by Lars von Trier & Jorgen Leth, Canada, Denmark & USA, Koch Lorber Films, 90mins [Film : DVD] Outcomes As a result of my research at Camberwell, then, I will have developed user-editable website code in PHP; I hope to have established an online community that will be able to create films; I will have developed a media collaborative tool in either Flash or Director; and I will have also produced a series of films about collaboration that can be shown and manipulated using this tool. Schedule I aim to translate the ASP website into PHP over the next four weeks and then I will develop the collaborative media tool over the rest of the Summer. I will continue, during this time, to create films which explore issues of collaboration (including a film that involves the Drama Centre London) and I hope to have a finished prototype ready by Christmas 2005. At that time I will begin to explore how the Final Show will be staged next Summer.