Calendar/2006-11-14
From AlmostPerfect
Tuesday November 14th
MOBILE DIGITAL COMMONS NETWORK – MOBILE LAB
• tracklines project • requirements for projects are changing in accountability using human subjects in research. money sources require new models of accountability when human subjects are involved in research and projects. this project is funded through research council network and requires accountability forms.
• question is how to deal with it without it stopping the projects we want to do.
• all institutions have an ethics tri-council determining ethics protocol. each institution has a version of their own.
Q: do these forms have international viability?
A: Don’t know. Know that institutions in the US have comparable laws.
A lot of these have to do with Aboriginal communities who worked together with other groups to put together protocols.
S: At Banff, it was first decided that all the activities here is research based. Decided that was too broad. Then it was changed to be more specific. If you are an artist doing research you do your work in the regular way.
J: In a way playing a piece of music is using human subjects.
S: Now we are trying to put research in a small area and have everyone continue to work on their projects in the regular way.
K: coming from institutionalization of the art pratice-issues around digital technologies, reconfiguring ourselves in relation to technologies, phd programs, the professionalization of art in relation to these other areas. I think there are other issues b eing raised about what constitutes creative subject. There is a shift in relation to what is creativity.
J: It’s interesting because in the open source movement, there has been movements relating to reinventing forms and licenses. Now I see it’s coming from the other side
(Introductions of Almost Perfect artist)
Regarding Mobile Digital Commons: (add names) Christopher Kline - software designer David di Sara - sound designer Angus Leech - Lead artist, MDCN
