Collective Art

My project concept is looking at the multiple identities of a person in terms of relationships (look at my previous post). It doesn't have anything to do with the idea of collective art.

However, the idea of an online collaborative art is actually quite good, so I decided to do a little research about it and found a few articles about it.

Online Collaborative Art and Art Mobs which talks about the use of the world wide web technology of creating artworks compiled from people all around the world and whether it works.

the 'Art Mobs' article talks about how collaborative art works well with alphabets, but so much with complex images or pictures. This is probably because of the different perspectives of images from different people. For example from my previous post about collective art, 'the smaller pictures', simpler images such as a 'heart', which has one common symbol that is internationally known, works better than a 'telephone', which has multiple icons representing it.

From researching about collaborative arts, I found that the most successful ones are the ones that are controlled. The Bluesfear Worm is one example of this, where each artist registered themselves in order to be able to contribute to the 'worm'. Another successful artwork similar to the 'Bluesfear Worm', taking it to another level, is the Zoomquilt1 and Zoomquilt2. I suggest that you view the flash file. The first time I looked at the flash file, I couldn't figure out how each person contributes their images. However, If you click on one of the participant's image, you'll see how it's done.