Collaboration and Subjectivity

*Hardware, software, selfware, wetware, cloudware. . . .*

Jean Piaget (developmental theorist)- 1896 to 1955
http://www.piaget.org/

1.0 The *epistemic subject* is the center of the developmental process. Each self, each person, must accomplish the goals of cognitive development alone.

1.1 Each individual is responsible for crating more powerful
structures for perceiving the world, and arrives at the pinnacle
of mind's power under one's own command.

1.2 Piaget gave form to the 20th century version of free will
that provided each person had owernship over their own knowledge and understanding of themselves and the world.

1.3 Geneva School starts in the Nineteen Twenties but does not come
into power fully till the Nineteen Fifties. The *epistemic subject* took root in the battle against the *collectivist adversaries* in Russia during the Cold War.

Lev Vygotsky (developmental theorist) - 1892 to 1953
http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/

1.0 Each individual is the product of relationships that build
powerful cognitive structures and command of one's own mind only within caring and attentive communities.

1.2 Eace individual relies on the gifts that can only be conveyed by other members of society and culture. This is the hallmark of our species. (Speech for instance).

1.3 Relationship oriented developmental cognitiion comes to the
foreground in the Sixties as mass political movements (such as - Civil Rights Movement) emerge.

Extreme Networks

2.0 Extreme individualism vs Extreme collectivism have now become Extreme networks.

2.1 Collaboration means navigating extreme subjectivies and intersubjectivities.

2.2 Collaboration means generating new spaces from two cultures as a Third culture,a Third mind or a Third body.

2.3 Contemporary Collaboration means creating a Third Network

3.0 Generative ideas emerge from joined thinking, from sustained struggles and long term dialogue. From the *thought communities*
built from a *necessary interdependance.*

3.1 Solo practicies are insufficient to meet the challenges of the new complexities of the Third network. Each individual needs creative partnerships, cooperative teams, joint visions and to become the center of cooperating networks.

3.2 What are the dynamics that contribute to long term success in
collaboration? What allows a Third network that is more dynamic than the hyper_individual or the totalizied collective?

3.3 This Third network would be more than the sum total of the smarm swarms. The Third network as an open source polyspacial society. Linked to each in a deep inter_dependance. The multitude(s) will sideload knowledge archives, critical tools,counter artifacts and the lobal condition.

[SHIFT_IN]

*Please, do not adjust your mind. The fault is with reality.*

Networked Performance: Any of a number of approaches to performance that incorporates computer networks (the internet, wireless, telephone, or other) or a combination of networks in the creation or distribution of a work. Works may be any mode, format or combination, such as synchronous, asynchronous, ongoing or fixed duration, distributed, local, etc.

Distributed Performance: Music/Theater/Dance/Cinema. Occurs simultaneously in multiple locations via networked interaction. Physically dispersed participants coming together through the network. For example, the performers in two or more locations play to audiences in their performance spaces and simultaneously to worldwide Internet audiences by means of especially created websites.

Collective Net Performance: A network-enabled performance in which a group collectively activates or participates simultaneously in the performance experience. Can be local or distributed.

Augmented Reality: Involves overlaying a virtual world on your view of the real world so that you experience both at the same time. Unlike virtual reality where you cut yourself off from the real world in order to immerse yourself in a computer generated virtual world.

Ubiquitous Computing: Ubiquitous computing seeks to embed computers into our everyday lives in such ways as will render them invisible and allow them to be taken for granted.