OPENSTUDIO

An experiment in creativity, collaboration & capitalism

OPENSTUDIO Book from Brent Fitzgerald on Vimeo.

Overview

Running from 2005 - 2008, OPENSTUDIO was an experiment in creativity, collaboration & capitalism created by the Physical Language Workshop led by John Maeda at the MIT Media Lab. Participants created and sold artwork in an online marketplace using a virtual currency.

OPENSTUDIO was a collaboration among Burak Arikan, Luis Blackaller, Annie Ding, Brent Fitzgerald, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Kate Hollenbach, Kelly Norton.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• XML-RPC API
• Java Servlets
• Java WebStart applications
• PostgreSQL
• Javascript/AJAX
• XHTML/CSS