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Description

Open Source Studio (OSS) is a collaborative, online software environment designed to meet the needs and dynamics of studio-based teaching in the media arts. OSS has been developed as a multi-site WordPress content management system situated on the university network. During the past four years, OSS has served undergraduate courses, Final Year Project (FYP) groups, graduate research and collaborative projects, offering an online social space that encourages transparency and cooperative learning. The project also incorporates live forms of remote teaching, critique, guest lectures, and online events via Webconferencing using Adobe Connect. Open Source Studio is thus a multi-faceted set of Web tools that integrates physical classroom/studio space with the online environment for critical writing, process documentation, portfolio presentation, online conferencing, asynchronous discussion and social media. The fluid, improvisatory nature of the artistic process is integral to the design of OSS, a virtual “studio of the future” that embraces the network as a medium of creative expression and new pedagogies. It enables interdisciplinary, inter-institutional and cross-cultural opportunities for students, faculty and researchers to explore networked collaborative courses and special projects that dissolve distance and geography.