Online/Offline
Starting with a mysterious invitation to select an object from the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford, England, four artists set off on a trail which crosses continents and seas, times and religions, tracing a creative and narrative journey for Online/Offline - an experiment in creating collaborative narrative online. Taking the project title as a starting point, the artists examined what happens when four individuals unknown to each other create an online project from scratch.
Writers Jane Draycott, Cris Bevir and Chris Joseph, and digital audio artist Simon Keep began their collaboration in March 2004, using a private forum, emails and messenger chats. They performed their work-in-progress live at Incubation3 in July 2004, inviting feedback from the audience which has been incorporated into the final piece. Transcripts of all the conversations between the artists are presented alongside the final piece, making this a unique record of an online collaboration.
The idea of a trail, a thread or a labyrinth became a key metaphor for this creative and narrative journey. The Labyrinth is an archetype, a divine imprint, found in all religious traditions in various forms around the world. It has only one path - there are no tricks and no dead ends. The path winds throughout and becomes a mirror for where we are in our lives.
Supported by
Electrofringe 2005, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (2005)
International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia (2005)
Prog:ME, 1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2005)
Seoul Net Festival 2005, Seoul, Korea (2005)
Incubation 3 symposium, Nottingham, UK (2004)
Writers Jane Draycott, Cris Bevir and Chris Joseph, and digital audio artist Simon Keep began their collaboration in March 2004, using a private forum, emails and messenger chats. They performed their work-in-progress live at Incubation3 in July 2004, inviting feedback from the audience which has been incorporated into the final piece. Transcripts of all the conversations between the artists are presented alongside the final piece, making this a unique record of an online collaboration.
The idea of a trail, a thread or a labyrinth became a key metaphor for this creative and narrative journey. The Labyrinth is an archetype, a divine imprint, found in all religious traditions in various forms around the world. It has only one path - there are no tricks and no dead ends. The path winds throughout and becomes a mirror for where we are in our lives.
Supported by
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