About the artist Mattis Manzel
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Application for ISEA 2008 submitted 2007-07-29.
wiki-net integrated wiki-hives for Singapore and for the NUS
Proposal Abstract
The wiki-net is based on an architecture that rewards wiki-communities for “showing a common face” by occasionally reporting about the ongoings in their wiki. The reward is that the community sees the reporting faces of neigboring wiks transcluded into the local page wiki-net faces of their own wiki. This “write - be read / read - be written”-feedback-mechanism applies to all wiki-net pages: wiki-net changes, wiki-net wiki-ideas, wiki-net events, wiki-net tings … The “current choice of neighbors” of every wiki is collected by the wiki-net server computing the information and notifying a wiki about by what other wikis it is currently being watched.
Every wiki-community is given full control over the choice of neighboring wikis to be “watched” and can adapt the wiki-net of their wiki to its current interests and valuation continuously. The wiki-net is entirely decentralized.
A wiki-hive is a web-site where everybody can “start a new wiki with a click and for free”. No registration or confirmation is required.
My proposal is to set up and promote wiki-net integrated wiki-hives for Singapore and for the NUS.
Themes wiki-wiki, also ludic interfaces, as a wiki can be applied very playful.
The mixed reality lab uses and promotes free software. The IDMI Arts and Creativity lab is good for workshops.
I set up one or several wiki-hives under a free license using free software: A Singapore-wiki-hive for local communities and a NUS-wiki-hive for the National University of Singapore itself. I expect a reliable server and technical help for the set-up. A multilingual set-up is desirable, help on translations for example to Malay or Chinese would be required.
Early online contact to the hosting crew are essential for the set-up as all of the technical work can and possibly should be done online before starting the residence. Early contacts to possible wiki users (groups, institutions and associations at the university and in Singapore) are helpful.
Technical help from my online peers might be required and would create costs. Advertising the hives on local media like newspapers and radio might make sense and would create costs.
The wiki-hives should be running within a few days after starting the residence. Demonstrations and workshops in town and in university fill the remaining time. Its said that preparing and scheduling them takes place in public and on a wiki starting soon after admission.
2004, starts the multilingual experiment which is about writing multilingual on wiki-pages using colored backgrounds for different languages and filter checkboxes to display the desired languages (programming AlexSchroeder). Lays out a hive-structure in the oddwiki-hive. Starts creating pages WikiNode on hundreds of wikis [1]. Joins s23-wiki. Starts the world-jam-wiki for music jam-sessions using internet-telephone. Lightning talk on the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (What's hot in wikilandia?).
2005 Starts the wiki-Woodstock. Meets peers at the wikimania in Frankfurt. Develops clean linking, a reader-friendly syntax for writing links alike on all wikis regardless which wiki software is in use. Starts and develops ting, a collaborative real-time text-work session which is copied to a wiki-page soon after. About 90 tings take place within the following two years. A web-preview of a ting is available already during the session. (programming RadomirDopieralski).
2006, develops the wiki-net starting dozens of wikis in the oddwiki-hive. Translates the wiki-net page-structure to Italian, French and Norwegian. Creates center-wikis on most existing wiki-hives [2]. Lightning talk on the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (What is the wiki-net?).
2007, starts and develops the obm-, kabo-, diki- and eArt-wiki-hives (with SamRose who’s also hosting them). Experiments with the chain-video-wiki. Helps on establishing the wiki-wednesday in German.
I hope to demonstrate wiki, the wiki-hives and the wiki-net in many lectures and workshops. I can do so facing hundreds of people.
A wiki-hive is a public low-barrier online work environment.
Mattis Manzel