Just doing some research on participation in the arts, and wanted to share a bookmark to an interesting article I found: http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/CurrentAreasofFocus/ArtsParticipation/TheDiversityofCulturalParticipation.htm

I'd be interested in any thoughts folks have surrounding participation and the arts (or links to relevant research articles)...

Anyone see this?

i love participatory art online and wanted to share a cool link that was recently sent to me:

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

from the site description:

Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.

Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.

Check out http://www.netsquared.org/

NetSquared looks like a really great resource for any non-profit looking to use tech and social networking tools. They put together a conference once a year that looks really awesome.

I only wish I had heard about this during their nomination phase last year. I signed up for their newsletter to keep up with their community.

Last night a friend from Germany shared with me a really interesting non-profit project called Dropping Knowledge: http://www.droppingknowledge.org 

I feel they share a lot of the same values and objectives as this project and the Collaboration Foundation: innovation, new-media, social transformation, platforms for communication, etc.  

Check out their Round Table project called The Table of Free Voices: http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/projects/archive.page

Check out this article about Hal Taussig. I find this pretty awesome.

http://mygooddeed.org/

this is a really beautiful memorial/movement created by the friends and family of Glenn Winuk, a volunteer fireman who lost his life helping others.

more backstory in this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070910/ts_csm/adogood??

I love the range of scale in the universe. From the super big to the super tiny. Came across this article on the DailyKos which painted a nice picture of scale:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/3/472/17137

Connects with the way i think of this project on some level. I think cosmic inflation would make an amazing one second film.

check out video of this sculptor's process:

http://blip.tv/file/94203

amazing work.

visit www.algore.com