Design of a tool to support the first phase of new media art projects

Design of a tool to support the first phase of new media art projects

Van Woerden, E.

Ozcan, E. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Human Information Communication Design // Design Aesthetics

Master of Science Design for Interaction

2010-03-12

Collaboration is an integral part of new media art projects. However, current collaboration tools do not provide enough support for new media artists. Bottlenecks include, trust, workflow, leadership, mental model of the team and fragmentation of tools. The project was carried out for Born Digital, a Utrecht based organization for new media and new creativity that strives to establish both a physical and a virtual workplace for new media artists. In this project, the situation of Born Digital was taken as a case for studying the process of remote collaboration, resulting in the notion that creating motivation, a shared goal and a shared understanding of skills, specialties and personalities in the first phase new media art projects is crucial for success. The tool that was developed during this project aims to support the first phase by providing a unique combination of shared experiences, multi-artist video conferencing and a variety of other ways for artist to artist interaction in a real-time setting, thus facilitating a rich first encounter between new media artists.

remote collaboration
new media art
online
first encounter

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6cbfc59d-c29c-46e5-a705-465f71f9c310

Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Van Woerden, E.