The term distributed creativity is used to describe networked cultural production that allows for the creative interplay of geographically dispersed participants. It is not one artist working on one object but rather a group of authors contributing to an artwork. In media art, one can trace a movement from artwork to network. The obsession with objects as described by Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist...

 is replaced with an enthusiasm for the process of interaction. Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols is an American historian and theoretician of documentary film. His study Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary covers the theory of documentary film, a topic neglected by mainstream film theory...

describes the latter in his essay "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems."

External links

• Distributed Creativity Forum presented by Eyebeam and Still Water at University of Maine
• Institute for Distributed Creativity