What is it about?
The chapter describes making "Intuition Commons," an online platform that documents artistic mentorship relationships through user-generated content. The project highlights overlooked contributors to artistic practice and proposes a relationship-based approach to acknowledgment that differs from traditional academic citation. The author discusses challenges in building the platform and its connection to feminist art practices, homage, and information activism. The website visualizes social connections and demonstrates how community shapes knowledge creation.
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Why is it important?
This project is important because it challenges traditional academic recognition systems by documenting the often invisible relationships that shape artistic development. By creating a community-driven archive of mentorship and influence, it gives voice to overlooked contributors and acknowledges the collaborative nature of creativity. The platform offers an alternative model for understanding knowledge creation that emphasizes relationships over individual achievement, potentially transforming how we value and document artistic contributions across communities.
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This chapter describes the process of building a digital work for activist purposes, as well as the results after five years of launch.
Christine D'Onofrio
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Scattered in Existence, July 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004700994_017.
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