Collaboration is at the heart of the work of the Metamedia Lab.

And we understand collaboration as teamwork. It is about trying to be as inclusive as possible. And letting people work with their talents. We see it connected to the old academic value of collegiality. It connects also with the idea of smart mobs. We think there are things to be learned about collaboration in certain kinds of design practice - performance (think of group improvisation), even agile adaptive software development.

See notes on:

• collaboration [link] - a distillation of five years of experience of collaborative co-creation

• the idea of a Humanites Lab and its teamwork - [link]

• the Mission statement

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new media

• Life Squared an animated archive of the work of artist Lynn Hershman in the online world Second Life
• Critical Studies in New Media - a research workshop funded by the Mellon Foundation and sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center

performance

• The Presence Project
• Philosophical Stages
• Archaeology/Performance

material culture studies

• DaimlerChrysler 2015 - a major project with DaimlerChrysler as part of the new Industrial Affiliates Program in Stanford Humanities Lab. Topic - media in the car of 2015. The group is currently password protected - see [link]
• Technoscience meets multivocality

archaeology

• Archaeography - collective photoblog in all things archaeological
• Archaeologies of the contemporary past
• Mediating archaeology
• Symmetrical Archaeology
• Archaeopaedia - a collaborative glossary (we keep restarting and reworking it!)

• see also various archaeological projects from Michael Shanks - [link]

cultural heritage

• Stanford Heritage Ethics - interdisciplinary group working on the intersections of governance, law, ethical principles and definitions of cultural heritage

philology

• Philolog

historiography

• Brith Gof - writing the history of a performance company

memory

• Cinememory
• Epic memory
• Teotihuacan

deep mapping

• The Three Landscapes Project

pedagogy - collaborative learning

• The Metamedia Classroom - various courses

collection/museum curation

• Burtynsky at Stanford - - an interactive web site accompanying the exhibition at Stanford in the summer of 2005 of the work of this great photographer - currently archived
• Behind the locked door - an excavation of the storerooms of the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford - from April 2007