Sur South

URL 0 http://www.isea2013.org/events/sursouth/

Description

"Sur><South is an ongoing media concept that is being facilitated and hopefully will be incubated by many Latin American, Australian and International new media artists.

Sur><South envisions the development, design and implementation of new strategies for collaboration within a decentralized, international networks of digital culture – a network of networks, with participants implementing a series of virtual and physical projects and events that take advantage of contributors’ pooled resources in order to foster cooperative development, growth and self-sustainability.

In its virtual tentative capacity, Sur><South is a web platform featuring different tools for exchange, documentation and dissemination – an evolving, collaborative platform for collective incubation, production and coordination of a range of digital culture initiatives.

The platform intends to hold the capacity to facilitate remote articulation of projects undertaken by interdisciplinary actors who seek to analyze and develop alternative solutions for various contextually informed social issues faced by threatened, disadvantaged and/or marginalized communities. The platform also intends to perform a secondary function as an Open Archive – a database housing the collaboratively produced content of its users, including data, research and information, theory, documentation, outlines of methodologies and prototype technologies that will be freely and publicly accessible.

BiotroniK 2.0 is the prototype opportunity for the physical materialization of Sur><South. Taking place as part of the three-day Sur><South workshop at ISEA2013, BiotroniK 2.0 will team up six Chilean artists with six Australian artists, along with several more remote viewers who will participate online. The workshop will be inspired by the Open Space format and Methodology via which participants arrive with no preconceived outcomes, but simply with the intention to meet, discuss and generate new ideas in real time, with the view to conceptualize strategies for realizing a range of collaborative outcomes beyond the event." (http://www.isea2013.org/events/sursouth/)