Online/Offline


URL of Work	http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk/frame/oo/
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Title of Work	Online/Offline
Author	Chris Joseph, Jane Draycott, Cris Bevir, Simon Keep
Year of Publication	2004
Language	English
Description	Online/Offline is an experiment in creating collaborative narrative online. Taking the project title as a starting point, the artists examined what happens when four individuals unknown to each other create an online project from scratch. They worked in an open-ended way to produce a text and soundtrack which forms the core of the project. They are also exploring the possibilities and limitations of an online/offline collaboration, including an open invitation for readers to add their own texts, images and sounds around the central narrative. The authors began their collaboration in March 2004, using a private forum, emails and messenger chats. They performed their work-in-progress live at the 3rd Incubation Conference in the UK in July 2004, inviting feedback from the audience which was incorporated into the final piece. Transcripts of all the conversations between the artists are presented alongside the final piece, making this a complete record of an online collaboration.
Authorization	Editorial status: not reviewed by the ELO for inclusion in the Archive-It project.
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