Paper short abstract:

My research is about emerging artistic practices, their production processes and social organization. The stress is in "workshop" as place to learn and work together. These work-together processes are grounded in horizontality, collaboration, uncertainty and flexibility as building elements, where process is paradigm.

Paper long abstract:

My proposal consists of an ethnography of an emerging artistic practice in present-day urban societies, the practice developed around artistic and scientific production laboratories: the media-labs. These production centers exist around the world today and they are oriented toward artistic and scientific development, blending creativity, traditionally associated with art, with other domains belonging to the "hard" sciences, creating a new form of socioeconomic production and technological competition.

These labs are part of a complex network of individual and collective agents that form a fuzzy circuit, around which they move in a disorderly fashion, producing a series of heterogeneous links that allow them to experience themselves and construct themselves as a community. They do this by using the new tools of communication and physical coexistence in workshops and shared learning spaces. These work-together dynamics and these processes grounded in horizontality, collaboration, uncertainty and flexibility, as building elements of these new dynamics, make them a fascinating place for the ethnography of art.