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2008-09-10

Social Art and Social Artist

On the panel of "Digital Community" Winners talk I moderated two days ago in Linz, the three speakers, including Iris Wu from 1kg.org, David Sasaki from GlobalVoicesOnline.org and Jeana Frost from PatientsLikeMe.com, all present the beautifulness of their web site and communities. So I call those rewarding winning sites "Social Art", and of course the people behind them are Social Artists.

So what really Social Art is? Let's try to define it. Social Art is very dynamic creation by crowds with 6 degree of separations. Someone with creative ideas can start from a small core by building framework to foster a community(for sure nobody there the first minute). However, the core framework can grow organically with open DNA and consistence on Sharism philosophy. The beautifulness, of course, is the big picture of so many mirco-behaviors vibrate in such community. So it can be seen as dynamic social artwork. Just like the big cluster of the clouds from the window of flight, Social Art is always changing to attract everyone of us to fly into it, or zooming in and out of it.

Then we need more social artists to create such core frameworks. Lets hope the rains of social creativities.

posted by im # 5:17 AM

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The Digital Community awards have some similarities to the HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media in Learning Awards. Please see the rfp below for more details.

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2008 DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION 2008
$2 Million Competition
Focus: Participatory Learning

Participatory learning is defined broadly: using new digital media for sharing ideas or planning, designing, implementing, or just discussing ideas and goals together.

Application Deadline: October 15, 2008

Full information at: www.dmlcompetition.net
Twitter: twitter.com/dmlComp

The second HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition is now open!

Awards will be made in two categories:

Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards support large-scale digital learning projects
$30,000-$250,000

This year we are piloting international eligibility for our Innovation Award and will be accepting submissions from primary applicants in Canada, People's Republic of China, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States; collaborators can be from anywhere in the world.
……
Young Innovator Awards are targeted at U.S. applicants aged 18-25 year olds
$5,000-$30,000

(You can find out about last year's winners at hub.dmlcompetition.net/)

Full information at: www.dmlcompetition.net

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Mindy : 6:51 PM

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