With the advent of Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, and a whole collection of other social sites, we’ve begun to see the beginnings of an expansion of the arts: the creation of collaborative music, crowd-sourced movies, and socially-augmented informational projects. Some of the new art is truly collaborative: people working across boundaries to create things together. Other art is “asynchronous”: a person might take the various creations of others and reuse them to create a new work. The connectedness that increasingly characterizes our world is also making it possible for us to discover and share creations in ways that simply wouldn’t have been possible in an earlier age.

• Lux Aurumquae – a hymn sung by a virtual choir
• The Hunt for Gollum – a crowd-sourced fan movie
• In B-flat – a collection of YouTube clips that can be played in any order to make new music
• ThruYou – Kutiman’s remix of YouTube clips (featuring “The Mother of All Funk Chords” and “I’m New”)
• Playing for Change – a project to link people from around the world through music
• ElQuijote – a collaborative reading of Don Quixote [in Spanish]
• The 9/11 Memorial – a collection of stories about experiences of the events of 9/11