The research of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. The iDC is an international network with a participatory and flexible institutional structure that combines advanced creative production, research, events, and documentation. While the iDC makes appropriate use of emerging low-cost and free social software (ie. peer-to-peer technologies, blogs and mailing lists) it balances these activities with regular face-to-face meetings.

Current Projects:

• WebCamTalk 1.0
  Guest Speaker Series On New-Media Art Education
  http://newmediaeducation.org
  January - April 2005
  Over the past ten years new-media art programs have been started at universities. Departments are shaped, many positions in this field open up and student interest is massive. In China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand enormous developments will take place in the next few years in "new media" art education. At the same time technologists, artists and educators acknowledge a crisis mode: from Germany to Canada, Finland, Ireland, Australia, Taiwan and Singapore to the United States and beyond. But so far, at least in the United States there has been surprisingly little public debate about education in new-media art.
  
  
  
• New-Media Art Education Conference
  May 6, 2005 at The Graduate Center, City University New York
  (Collaboration between the Institute for Distributed Creativity and The Graduate Center, City University New York)
  
  

• Distributed Learning Project (DLP)
  Online tool for new media educators
  (Trebor Scholz, Tom Leonhardt-- under development)
  The Distributed Learning Project (DLP) provides an infrastructure for groups of researchers and educators of all backgrounds to create, find, edit, re-use and share up-to-date content situated in new media art discourses and production. The DLP enables open knowledge exchange in new media research and production. It offers up-to-date resources in the rapidly changing field of new media research. Entries from fields as diverse as conceptual art, film, literature, political science, computer science and cultural theory are semantically interlinked encouraging cross-disciplinary research, teaching and production.
  
  
  
• Tropical Open Source (Learning from Brazil)
  (This international conference is a collaboration between the Institute for Distributed Creativity and Ricardo Rosas, Sao Paolo.)
  Most often Brazilian technologists and artists and theorists travel to North America or Europe to learn about emerging technologies, tactical media or techno-cultures. "Tropical Open Source" will reverse this flow and set up a situation in which Brazilians offer their pioneering experiences in the socialization of open source and free software to share them with the German, U.S. American and French circles. Focus will be given to specific examples from the broad field of free software in education, art and open source, women in open software, the GPL society, hierarchies in open source circles, socially situated software and open content initiatives, and free software development.
  
  
  
• Researcher in Residence Spring 05
  Dr. Richard Barbrook
  Hypermedia Research Institute, University of Westminster, London (UK)
  The Institute for Distributed Creativity develops texts and advanced production in the field of collaboration in media art, technology and cultural theory. Two Researchers in Residence join the Institute every year. Richard Barbrook will present the Rosa Luxemburg Lecture.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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