We recommend the special collection, maintained by Furtherfield.org:

• Collaboration and Freedom – The World of Free and Open Source Art: This is a collection of artworks, texts and resources about freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute ideas, artworks, experiences, media and tools.

Please read:

• Key Article: DIWO (Do-It-With-Others): Artistic Co-Creation as a Decentralized Method of Peer Empowerment in Today’s Multitude. Marc Garret. [1]

Introduction

1. Net Art and Pro-Commons Activism. By Juan Martín Prada.
2. How networked culture differs from postmodernism. Kazys Varnelis [2]
3. DIWO: Do It With Others – No Ecology without Social Ecology. By Marc Garrett, Ruth Catlow - Furtherfield, 26/01/2013 [3]

Resources

Art Collectives

• Jubilee Collective in Belgium:

URL = http://jubilee-art.org/?rd_page=4-2&lang=en

"Starting from the practice of this core group of artists based in Brussels and The Hague, JUBILEE aims to set up an organizational structure that optimizes the output of its members through joining efforts and equally distributing its collective assets and resources (economic, artistic and social). We wish to explore the resulting specific micro-economy and its potential for extension towards other individuals, organizations and structures – both locally and internationally. Based on the idea of open source practice, redistribution of accumulated value within a mutual economical system and stimulating the exchange of knowledge – both on an artistic level as well as business administration – JUBILEE researches the challenging trajectories for change towards a new economy, also for the arts."

• Pizarra Urbana: We build and mantain Collaborative Chalkboards in Chile.http://www.pizarraurbana.cl

Books

• Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture, Gregory Sholette, Pluto Press, 2010 : "Radical Social Production and the Missing Mass of the Contemporary Art World :"The premise of this book is that the formal economy of contemporary art is dependent upon a previously suppressed sphere of informal, non-market, social production involving systems of gift exchange, cooperative networks, distributed knowledge, and collective activities, which is becoming increasingly visible and potentially threatening to the symbolic and fiscal cohesion of high culture, especially in its most politicized form as interventionist art. [4]

• Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design. Edited by Xtine Burrough. Routledge, 2011

See also:

1. http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/
2. 3er Inclusiva-net Meeting: Net.art (second epoch). The Evolution of Artistic Creation in the Net-system, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 2009
3. 1er Inclusiva-net Meeting: New Art Dynamics in Web 2 mode

Essays

1. Aesthetic Commons and the Enclosures of Instituting Autonomies. By Jordi Claramonte. [5]
2. Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression in Greece ; Kostakis, V. & Drechsler, W.

Mailing lists

1. http://www.netbehaviour.org/
2. IDC - http://distributedcreativity.org/
3. https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc
4. http://www.collectivate.net/
5. Nettime - http://www.nettime.org/

New Media Art Web Zines and Blogs

1. http://www.furtherfield.org/
2. http://www.kein.org/
3. http://www.metamute.org/
4. http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
5. http://post.thing.net

Places

See also: Hacklabs ; Hackspace Foundation ; List of Hacker Spaces

Media Labs

Media labs that explore collaboration between art, science and technology

1. Ars Electronica FutureLab: Ars Electronica's focus has been on the tension and interplay at the nexus of art, technology and society. Formulating and implementing the future manifestations of this interaction is the chosen mission of the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
2. Media Lab Prado - http://medialab-prado.es
3. Eyebeam - http://eyebeam.org/

Galleries

Galleries that have a particular interest in openess and art.

• http://www.http.uk.net/