[ISEA2013] Panel: Amanda McDonald Crowley – Open Cultures: cultivating collaboration

Panel Statement

Panel: Rogue Troopers: Designing functional and fictional disruptions

“We are a cultural laboratory re-imagining possible futures at the interstices of art, science, nature, and everyday life.” _fo.am/about/

Artists are increasingly working in collaborative ways to develop work that moves beyond conventional gallery spaces and into the world, and our lived experience. Through the lens of recent curatorial research into ArtTechFood, Urban Research, and Open Culture, I will look at the history of artist labs as spaces to work creatively and build community. I am especially interested in how artists are currently making significant contributions to open source movements, mapping, sharing, collaboration, DIY, knowledge sharing, and skills transfer to explore open knowledge and build open utopias. What are the possibilities and pitfalls of curating this kind of research and process?

  • Amanda McDonald Crowley, Public Art Action, New York, US. Amanda McDonald Crowley, a native of Australia now based in New York, is a cultural worker, curator and facilitator who specialises in creating new media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange.  Since the mid-1990s Amanda has directed a number of international media art organisations, including Eyebeam Art and Technology Centre, NY, Adelaide Festival and Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT). In 2004 Amanda was executive producer for ISEA2004. She has held numerous international residencies, and occasionally writes for art magazines and journals.
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