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These are just a few of trAce's previous collaborative projects. See more projects in the Gallery
The Citrus
Affair
trAce was invited in
Autumn 1999 to host an Online Writing Competition with a difference
- it is open to disabled people only. Our immediate response was to
ask, "But how do we know the entrants are bona fide disabled, and
what does 'disabled' mean anyway?" After all, one of the reasons
many of us enjoy working in cyberspace is because we believe it goes
some way towards transcending the kind of definition which is driven
by our physical existence. We feel it gives us a chance to meet
others on our own terms and without attracting prejudice or
discrimination. We thought about the project long and hard, and in
the end we decided to host it. But we'd like to hear your views.
Check out The Citrus Affair and let us know what you think.
The Eclipse
Quilt
Visitors from the areas covered
totally or partially by the solar eclipse on August 11th 1999, and
from all over the world, were invited to write about their
experiences of eclipses, or feelings about the phenomenon in
general. A fascinating record of the Eclipse.
Imaginary Countries
Alan McDonald began
his residency with collaborative project: the a-to-z of Imaginary
Countries. A website dedicated simply to a word-image, a metaphor.
Lost
Brainchild of Alan Sondheim,
The Lost Project invited writers to go to the site and add name, email address, and a name and / or description of something they have lost, irretrievably (Feb-Mar 2000).
LoveandWar
Alan Sondheim's
LoveandWar
project (begun September 1999;
other pages are at 2 3 4 5),
The Noon Quilt
In October 1998 we asked writers to "Look through your window at noon wherever you are in the world and write what you "see" in 100 words. Send it to us via a webform and we will patch it into the quilt." The Quilt is now closed, but you can still see the hundreds of entries we received from around the world. You can download the code too, and build your own quilt. Now available as a book, from the trAce shop.
Solstice
Alan McDonald invited writing on the theme
of 'the longest day / the shortest day', inspired by the
summer/winter solstice. All writing had to be submitted during the
24 hours of June 21st 2000, the day of the summer/winter solstice,
the longest day in the northern hemisphere and the shortest day in
the southern hemisphere.
Speedfactory
A fast,
collaborative writing exercise/project presented by
Writer-in-Residence Bernard Cohen and Terri-ann White (author of
Deep Immersion), based on their project Speedfactory. (Begun 24
November 1999)
Yours
Alan Sondheim's collaborative project (begun October 1999; f g h i) is now
completed.
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