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Share your Openstudio drawings on Flickr!

October 30th, 2009 | medialab, mit, openstudio, plw | No Comments »

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Luis is organizing an effort to archive Openstudio drawings through Flickr. The Openstudio Flickr group is a place for folks to share drawings and other memorabilia:

Running from 2005 – 2008, Openstudio was an experiment in creativity, collaboration & virtual economics created by the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Participants created and sold artwork in an online marketplace using a virtual currency.

More than a thousand participants created and traded art in Openstudio. This group will function as a space to archive and share the content that former Openstudio users backed up before the site went down.

It’s fun to see that people have saved so many of their illustrations, and the hundreds of profile pages that Kyle has uploaded. I have a small collection of images, and hopefully you do, too! Thanks to Luis for getting this effort started!

Pecha Kucha

February 23rd, 2008 | openstudio, research, talks | 3 Comments »

Highlights from an Experiment in Creativity, Community, and Capitalism.

Last night I presented some highlights from Openstudio at Pecha Kucha Boston #3. I had never been to a Pecha Kucha Night before, but really enjoyed the fast-paced format. Each speaker showed 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide, sharing their art/design work and/or philosophy. If you’re curious, here’s a PDF of my slides, and the organizers will be posting more pictures from the event in the Pecha Kucha Boston Flickr group.

Putting together the presentation for the slideshow made me a little nostalgic about being in the Openstudio community. It was fun to revisit the project and look at some of the creative things people did with it.

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