Google Wave for Artists

I've been using Google wave to work with a musician in LA and another in Aukland, New Zealand. I can't imagine how we would have done it prior to Google Wave. Shame I didn't spot this post sooner or I could have potentially got access to it sooner.

Suffice to say I am very pleased with the outcome. How did everyone else who posted here get on with their projects? I see some comments below but not all the people responded to say how it helped them progress their work.

Cheers

Nice post. Would like to invite you to join ArtisticWaves - a collection of Waves for artists online: http://bit.ly/6cDsqK

I've used Google Wave primarily in planning events and I think that could apply to musicians and artists too! It takes a bit of getting used to and access is somewhat limited to those with invitations (so far), but it has been worth several experiments.
.-= Dena: Philadelphia Event Planning´s last blog ..American College of Rheumatology Convention =-.

Hello Abundant Artist!

I am a filmmaker and collaboration is an absolute necessity of my art. When I first heard about Wave I became very excited about all of the possibilities it can have. I have read about how it can work with post-production work flow, especially if some new features are created for Wave. I think filmmakers will continue to utilize wave as it evolves.

The way that i want to use Wave is to collaborate with a friend on writing a screenplay for an animated feature film. The concept is in its infant stages, and we have already begun sending SMS's to each other with ideas. Wave seems like the perfect place to keep all of our correspondence together on record so it doesn't get lost and we can continue to draw from spur of the moment ideas that we send each other. As I read more about Wave I became more and more excited about the forum we can have to launch this movie from concept to screenplay and beyond to production and even through to post production.

I would use it to post concept drawings and voice recordings of characters, as well as an ongoing editable draft of the script. Also use it for bouncing ideas back and forth and keeping a retrievable log of scene notes, and music ideas, and character sketches that we can access wherever we may find ourselves, and invite others to contribute and help develop the movie.

As the movie is written and storyboards are created we can use Wave to share our idea with interested parties who might want to contribute their efforts to helping the concept reach the big screen.

Thank you for your consideration,

Cody

Hello from France,

As a photographer (hobby/passion) I'd like to use wave as a central place for showcasing/promoting my portfolios and interacting with my fans in real time.

Here a couple of tools I'd like to use in wave:

- use "social aware" collaborative galleries able to capture the community/fans sentiments about the showcased photographs (each gallery would embed features like commenting, rating or chat systems)

- track/analyze the population profiles that have shared these galleries (this would enable me to better understand who likes what I do)

- If I am not available have a wave robot able to engage a conversation when several people are visiting the same gallery (maybe I am dreaming here.... :-)

Thanks Cory for this great blog.

Cheers.

Menorki

I make jewelry and paintings and my husband is a musician. We are both teachers as well. While this is obviously a remarkable tool for collaborating on projects both in visual and performance arts, I could see it being used as a teaching tool as well. Mostly I was thinking in terms of a master class type situation, where you are demoing advanced techniques and concepts. Colleagues/students could view, ask questions and have group discussions in real time. It could also be used in more traditional teaching settings (as opposed to master classes) allowing for real time interaction and instruction between teacher and student. The possibilities are endless. I can't wait!

Heather

I'd like Googlewave to have an app that allows people to view where art events, shows etc. are happening in the world like google earth, then when you close in on your area you can get the info on an art show, gallery events etc. in your area.

Secondly an app like this could also let artists know where there are call to artists, photographers, artisans to submit to an upcoming event.

Hey Cory,
As a creator and enactor of live performance and play for children & families, and big adults too, my work integrates many domains - mindfulness, play, attachment theory, neurobiology, developmental movement and of course the performing arts. These domains are peopled with people who don't always directly interact.

I imagine making Waves in several ways:
-inspire and harness collaboration between artists, educators, scientists
-document the living process of collaboration
-design rolling word-of-mouth (word-of-wave?) invites to our events
-create live, engaging funding proposals
-provide a moment by moment window into our creative process
-facilitate rolling Wavinars on the creative process itself

What is exciting is how communications technology is mirroring and extending the creative process artists have long been basking in.

Thanks,
Marc

Hey Cory,

Thanks for giving us a peek at the new "thing". I would use Wave to collaborate with other musicians, but I think mostly I'd use it to collaborate with my fans. I would love to be able to put sketches of new tunes, rehearsal videos, stupid marketing ideas (I have a TON of those!) up and let my fans chime in. Afterall, it's for them that I'm putting this stuff out there anyway, right?

I've been looking for a way to get my fans more involved in my process...maybe Wave is it?

Cheers,
Jason
.-= Jason Parker´s last blog ..Soul Provider at The Triple Door =-.

As a musician i will use Wave to collaborate with likeminded people spread out over the world. As of now i have two global projects going wth a lot of email correspondents and you-send-it files, which isnt really convinient. I want to talk about the projects in real-time and come up with new ideas or even create new sounds while in a wave. This is the most basic thing I know i would use it for.

For future projects i would like to create wave sessions with closed time lines. It would basically be a session between, say, Monday and Wednsday to create 'something' (music video, documentary, art project etc.) under a given theme and time. However, i am not 100% sure of how exactly Google wave is working so Im sure more oppertunities will be clear once i get into the whole Wave bizzwizz.

ok.
Max