[NetBehaviour] Stranger of the Month - analogue open source?

[aabrahams]

Marc ,

Could you please ask Kerrie Dee to keep us informed on her project.

Best
Annie

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:24 AM, marc garrett <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org>
wrote:

> Part of the upcoming Next Wave Festival (Melbourne, May).
>
> Setting up office as part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival, Stranger of
> the Month invites members of the public to visit our mailroom where our
> clerks will assist you in distributing instructions to unsuspecting
> strangers via fax, post and the web.
>
> Stranger of the Month is an amateur publishing project based on novel
> forms of distribution and collective creativity. A service for
> generating instructions for the anonymous other, Stranger of the Month
> takes its cue from 'how to' manuals, spy novels, new age self-help
> mantras, and minor acts of everyday subversion.
>
> Coming from a non-technical background I have attempted to mimic an open
> source community while being deliberately low-fi in my approach
> (instructions are typed on a 50s Brother typewriter).
>
> While the concept contains ideas that have been circulating amongst
> these practices for some time, my goal was really to create a collective
> expression of these practices. I love the idea of an open source
> database for instructions/ participatory art/ games for example - a
> toolkit for public engagement. I will be encouraging artists to attach a
> creative commons license on these works, although issues of artistic
> ownership are strangely placed in this project, and am still not decided
> on whether this will seem almost token.
>
> Part of the project also includes participatory projects by artists, to
> be published in print media during the festival and performed live in
> public space. One such project by Hugh Davies is an analogue version of
> a locative game involving hand-drawn maps. Taking participants on a
> trail through the city from one map to another, participants follow the
> instructions until the few left are invited to draw their own maps and
> take over the game, thus providing the potential for new situations and
> interventions to occur.
>
> I am currently working on the website - it should be complete by May.
> It's www.strangerofthemonth.com for those who are interested.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Kerrie-Dee
>
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