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Collaboratives or groups of artist working together
with interdisciplinary teams are one
of the defining characteristics of the new media genre.
This tendency of artist collaboratives
in new media practice flies in the face of the idea
of the lone genius so much at the center of modernism.
Some collaborative partnerships are long term while others are
put together temporarily for specific projects.
Like film projects, new media projects often require teams
with a great variety of skill sets such as computer science,
user interface design, and many others.
One example of collaborate new media group project is radical
software groups Carnivore which was created by a number
of computer programmers to sniff network connections and display
that activity in a variety of ways designed
by user interface designers invited
to collaborate on the project.
Working in collaborative groups
for whatever reason naturally calls on strategies that cope
with the collective nature of authorship.
Some groups like the Bureau of Inverse Technology, Fake Shop,
Institute for Applied Autonomy, Mongrel,
and VNS Matrix work under pseudonyms.
While others like RT Mark identify themselves
with pseudo-corporate style branding that is intended
as a commentary on commercial or business culture.
Participation.
Taking its cue from the 1960's and 70's happenings
of Ellen Chopra and others.
New media has sought
to encourage more viewer involvement and participation
in artwork and where the viewer actively participates
in the resulting artwork.
Examples of this kind of work are Jonah Brucker-Cohen
and Katherine Moriwaki Umbrella dot net and Golan Levin
at alls dial tones a Telesymphony
where audiences members interact,
but don't change the work
or leave any individual trace is another variation
of participation based artworks.
The viewer chooses an original path through an artwork
but does not affect change.
A good example of this done on the web by Olia Liliana,
"My Boyfriend Came Back from the War."
Visitors click through a series of frames on a web page
to reveal images and fragments of text.
Although the elements
of the story never change the way the story unfolds is
determined by each visitors own actions.
