Remote collaboration

Judith's image about Helen and Challen's discussion.
Participants listening to Challen and Helen.

Challen Wilson and Helen Varley Jamieson discussed their approaches to remote collaboration in making work.

Challen had earlier presented: Winter Overture: extracted - the spirit of the piece... excerpts from a collaboratively written script which she is working on with Cathy Rexford, an Inupiaq woman from the north of Alaska (Kaktovik). She talked about the complexity of working across geographical and cultural distances and how together they were working on and through that.

Helen explained that with her online collaborative work, she has sometimes never met her co-performers. She talked us through some of the ways they work with text together in real time one-to-one or as a group.

etherpad - remote collaborative text

one of the applications that i use in remote collaboration is an online text editor that allows real time collaborative writing; this is useful for brainstorming, writing & editing any text (script, proposal, blurb, etc) & is also quite interesting as a performative tool as well - each person uses a different colour for their text & it becomes a textual dance when several people edit simultaneously.

it's called etherpad & can be found at http://etherpad.com/