in september Andrew Paterson presented some thoughts on creative actions in online spaces. We began to meet over skype and visit a few places later on, to see the posibilities for critical self organizing. One of them is habbo hotel. Andrew suggested our talks could develop into a club about public and private spaces.
And now i’m working on a spreadsheet for inviting people to come and join. Here’s a rss feed for the planning site. Join the club by using the spreadsheet, post ideas for spaces to explore. You can be a member by listening and talking.
Some of our other projects also deals with these matters. Andrews work with public and private online spaces, and gave a course, on among other things how these places and platforms can work as boundary objects for activism. My agenda comes from recent and ongoing projects, Wikipedia as meeting place for the institution of art, wikipedians and public space, flash 7 games also playable for the Wii browser, available in public and private spaces, and also Call for EULA’s, where everybody can make their own end user license. The meeting between different types of users and inhabitants as platform for art at Wikipedia is a group project being developed with Nis Rømer and Gillion Grantsaan at the moment. We arrange walks, workshops and research for new articles. The focus so far has been on public art, we also need to take care of the meeting between wikipedians, readers, appropriation artists and one timers. The projects uses geo information, gmaps, gdocs and wave to organize and link to videos and photos, here from a tour in southern Ørestad. In relation to the club, one of my colleagues may be interested in talking about transition towns at skype, while we write an article about it, for a different language, and see if it’s notable for a public encyclopedia. Metaplace.com closes in january (Metaplace Inc. goes on). It was really good to see how a MMO could work as flash 10 browser gameworlds created by the players(sign the petition). Unfortunately this kind of creativity didn’t work out. Inworld value drives the economics, and the small world i made was not much of a game, just navigating. Game mechanics is perhaps more interesting in places like Kongregate, or the iphone App store. From our point of view as newbies, creativity in casual games or Free-to-play/ Play for free is maybe played in a browser, in a sort of more public place? People who are not into participation in games or other social online places, could maybe be interested in these temporary groups. The mobile server could be fun to play with. Almost ten year old software for an old windows ce can work as a temporary server and playground. Similarly I hope we can open for suggestions for spaces to learn about.
