Bringing “Our Collnnective Mind: Critics & the WikiWay” to the WikiWars conference was a way to raise many issues related to wikis, to collaboration, to creativity, a way to engage in the discussion by investigating the particularities of wikis and interactions between participants, concepts and discussions.
Proxémies sexua linguitique fut la première installation du Collnnective Minds. Elle a eut lieu en octobre 2009, dans le cadre d'Artivistic, une rencontre transdisciplinaire internationale de trois jours sur l'interAction entre art, information et activisme. Sa 4ème édition portait sur le thème TURN*ON. Petit retour sur la façon dont le public a pensé, écrit, dessiné, sculpté et joué à partir du "sexe" et de la " langue", et tout ce qui se trament entre et autour de ces termes .
Phases de test: Montreal, September 2009
Our Collnnective minds has ben inspired by Glass Plate Game, Wikis, OpenSpace Technologies. Basically, we wanted to understand, compare, play and extend the “Wikiway” and its inherent principles to other devices.
The installation first consisted of a giant cube, made of bamboo pieces allowing participants to hang concepts (written or drawn) on a recycled CD (or other hanging pieces). We thougt that they would be invited to place their concept in the space and create links with other concepts and so participate in the creation of a collective mind map. We had chosen to suggest four kinds of links: proximal or semantic relations (represented in red ), causal relations (in yellow), evocative poetical, subjective or surrealist relation (in green) an)and opposition link ( in blue). People would justify the relation they do between concepts by placing a note on the link. Doing so, the space wiuld be the occasion for mediated discussion and justification (through the notes) but also physical and real life one, as several participants have a good chance to meet within the cubic installation.
