The Distributed Learning Project (DLP) provides an infrastructure for groups of researchers and educators of all backgrounds to create, find, edit, re-use and share up-to-date content situated in new media art discourses and production.

The DLP enables open knowledge exchange in new media research and production. It offers up-to-date resources in the rapidly changing field of new media research.

Entries from fields as diverse as conceptual art, film, literature, political science, computer science and cultural theory are semantically interlinked encouraging cross-diciplinary research, teaching and production.

with Tom Leonhardt

website: project website

Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dlp 

sponsorship: Educational Technology Center, The State University of New York at Buffalo

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In the process of globalization international borders become increasingly easy to cross for capital. Corporations reach super-mobility, but borders are militarized against "undesirable" populations. Birth becomes one's first immigration, and seemingly arbitrary lines determine social and economic geography. Tuesday Afternoon, is an easily accessible screen-based hypermedia project. Landscape is experienced as site of discrimination and even death. Using sound, text and video, the game-like structure of Tuesday Afternoon goes beyond the point-and-click and makes each visitor's navigation of the piece unique.

website: project website

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Discordia is an experiment in social filtering, collaborative moderation and different styles of communication. In order to try out how software structures influence discussion, Discordia is a weblog - also known as a blog. Most blogs only post stories written by the editor or editors. Some blogs allow readers to post comments about stories, and some allow users to submit stories to editors, who then decide what stories get posted. But very few blogs allow readers to decide for themselves what stories get posted - peer moderation. On Discordia, readers submit stories into a moderation queue, and other readers decide what stories get posted. Examples of other peer moderated weblog sites are Indymedia and Kuro5hin.
With so many mailing lists already devoted to art, media, politics, theory, what is the point of yet another discussion forum?
Mailing lists tend to favor an essay-type style of writing and/or a statement-rebuttal type of communication because of their linear structure. Discordia uses the blog structure and different sections to encourage shorter posts and different styles of communication. Since this structure enables prioritizing, it should also be easier to follow and combine various topics.
Another thing - if you're as overwhelmed by mailing lists constantly bombarding your inbox as some of us are, we hope you'll appreciate the way you can come and go to Discordia at your leisure. It's sort of like one of those hot/cold media differentiations. Mailing list posts come to you; with a weblog, you go to it.

After two years the Discordia stopped and is now archived.

collaborators: Saul Albert | Amy Alexander | Aileen Derieg | Geert Lovink | Alex McLean | Trebor Scholz | Pip Shea | Sintron | Peter Traub

sponsorship: the project archive is hosted by O.K Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria

website: archived Discordia site

date | location: March 2005 | Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia

participants: Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), Boris Saletic, Marko Batista, Miltos Manetas, Trebor Scholz

The "STATEMENTS AND REMIXES" is the first of five interdisciplinary projects of the STRUCTURE.01 network.  The network creates discussion through particular projects that are created as a result of particular activism, social construction and a realization of the concept of hybrid formation, instead of being excited and overwhelmed with its own virtual communication.

"STATEMENTS AND REMIXES" recognizes the concept as a basis of any art practice. It creates a new variable sense of environment, that demands non linear reading by the consumer on a basis of moving statements of the participants. They do not see their concepts as separated units, their purose is interaction of various connections.

websites: Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana website

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