theory – Kevin McCourt

This project has been developed by Kevin McCourt, artist and Bartolo Luque, theoretical physicist.

This practical experiment will focus on social interaction, with more than a hundred creators collaborating in the making of two collective works: One a story, the other a picture. Each person will participate, using their own computer (client), by designing a small part of the collective work which will be housed in a central computer (server).

The projects will address how we are influenced by others as we form and communicate across networks.

They will allow us to also explore relationships between scientific (Physics) techniques for understanding collective human behaviour and philosophical and psychological concepts related to individual experience, sensation and perception which form part of such social phenomena.

Intro: Initial ideas for a collaborative, transdisciplinary project

This blog introduces a series of collaborative projects with Bartolo Luque, a theoretical physicist. We plan to present interactive artistic projects and participative interventions which explore relationships between scientific (Physics) understanding of collective human behaviour and philosophical concepts concerned with individual experience, sensation and perception which form part of such social phenomena.

Our practical experiments will focus on social interaction in public places. They will be designed to permit the emergence of heterogeneous, idiosyncratic, anomalous, or shared behaviours, within and across different culturally specific contexts and in pan-cultural contexts such as the internet.

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Two new texts on Riverrun: Concept, Process and Collective Creative Function

1. A brief description of concepts and processes.

2. A description of Riverrun’s collective creative function as a transdisciplinary project.

Riverrun and Colourwall: A Brief Description

Intro: Initial ideas for a collaborative, transdisciplinary project