A collaborative multi-author environment organized by Ted Warnell with many.
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Collective works multi-author scripts
Multi-authorship redefines one of the most precious referentials of literary criticism: the name of the author, a kind of brand, of identity, which prescribes a route for meaning and constitutes the symbolic and economic value of the work as whole. It implodes an entire juridical, market and philosophical structure. What happens to copyright, to literary criticism and to the “voice” of the text when the work no longer belongs to one name alone? These links trace early web-based answers to that question.
c0ll3ct!v3 wr!t!ng / shared logins / shifting signatures / texts that refuse to belong to just one name
Created for a survey exhibition of Douglas Davis work in 1994 and donated to the Whitney in 1995, is a “classic” of net art. Restored in 2012, it is presented in two versions in the Whitney website.
A networked narrative organized by Helen Thorington where contributions build a shared text from dispersed interventions.
A CGI-based space in which readers and writers blur into the same role, editing and extending one another’s lines.
Us
Poetry made from many voices around a shared event, showing how online collaboration can produce a choral text. Formerly at http://staff.uiuc.edu/~gillespi/gulf/poetry.html
I Remember Parkinson
A fragmentary memory project in which each participant adds a layer to a collective recollection, rewriting biography as shared process. Formerly at http://www.knosso.com/tmcl/park/sandra/source.html
A multilingual lab for words, where visitors inscribe and re-inscribe terms, turning vocabulary into a collective sculpture. Formerly at http://www.fondation.cartier.fr/verbarium.html