Research: Example Projects
Looking for inspiration?
We hope these projects presented here in this report inspire further investigations into this intersection of community + arts + internet.
Examples
- CCD.net
- A website for professionals in community cultural development; promoting self-publishing. (Australia)
- City Stories
- A voluntary arts project inspiring people to write about where they live. (US-based with International participants and focus.)
- Digital storytelling
- Brings stories out from the community; uses the internet, television or other ways of distributing the work. (International)
- TexTales
- Technologist collaborating with community members and local historians, (Ireland)
Update, 04: Communication technologies in the community
More often now artists and technologists are collaborating on projects which take advantage of communication technologies such as the internet, mobile phone networks or wireless. Increasingly, artists are gaining not only the skills but also the understanding required to use these technologies in their arts practice. Technologists on the other hand, are experimenting with new hardware and protocols in such novel ways at the fringe of standard technology that it often looks and feels like art.
- Murmur
- ... exists in three cities, Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal. It gathers personal stories about locations as an audio archive of the cities’ histories. The participants can access the archive by calling a number and using an extension that identifies a location. They can add to the archive by contacting the Mumur staff who curate, record and edit their stories.
- http://murmurtoronto.ca/
- C-TEXT
- ... in Kilkeel, County Down, saw teenagers working with digital photos and text-messaging project: a partnership between BBC NI and Media Lap Europe in Dublin. The teenagers take photos of their local area in the theme ‘A day in my life’. These images are projected around the town square. The audience also sent mobile text messages which were broadcast on screen within 20 seconds. Mike Ananny, who worked on TexTales worked on this project.
- BBC NI website
- Outside in
- ... was a two-day forum held in Sweden June 14-15th, 2004. ‘Outside in’ promoted “reflection, participation and action in public space. Featured will be major international voices in public art and graffiti, design and architecture, activism and urban planning, social sciences and politics.”
- http://www.outsidein.se/
- Yellow Arrow
- ... combines installations in public places, a website, and mobile phones. People print out and place arrows in selected public places. They take photographs and post the images and descriptions on the site; these are linked from a map on the website. When people encounter the yellow arrow in a public place, they can call from their mobile and access the information from the site.
- http://yellowarrow.org/
- GuerillaTV
- ... entirely subverts mainstream media by connecting individuals directly in a point-to-point wireless (802.11) broadband network. Their software is a push-technology like television, and their network is a license-free broadcast media. Community members provide the video and music for the network.
- http://guerillatv.org.uk/
Submit your project
We are looking for projects that can meet (most) of these criteria:
- Involved the participation of members of a local community or region
- Used a collaborative approach with community members having input into the work with artists
- Was web-native; used the internet or any other communications networks in the performance or creation of the work.
- The work would invite participation from visitors outside the local community