This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributors-from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy-to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

Introduction: The Work of Collaborative Art in the Age of Technology Sondra Bacharach Part I: Collaboration in the Age of Technological Innovation 1. Pirate Film Societies: Rearranging Traditional Apparatus with Inappropriate Technology Gabriel Menotti 2. Digital Street Art Gemma Argüello and Sondra Bacharach 3.. Hybrid Modes of Collaborations in the Post-Socialist Context: The Socio-Politically Engaged Art Practices of Big Hope and Matei Bejenaru Izabel Galliera 4. Turkish Contemporary Art and the Emergent Off-Space Artist Collectives Tijen Tunali Part II: Collaboration and the Identity Crisis 5. The Solitary Author as Collective Fiction Karen Gover 6. Collaboration's Gesture at the Impossible Tim Corballis 7. Technological Impacts on Musical Collaboration: Can The Postal Service Survive? Henry Pratt 8. Empathy, surviving, collective reflexivity Legwork (Tobey Albright, Timothy Murray, Egle Obcarskaite) 9. Collective Action and the Reciprocity of Friendship Katerina Reed-Tsocha Part III: Rethinking Collaborations 10. Sisterly Love: The Collaborative Art of Sisters Louise Mayhew 11. Future Calls The Dawn Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen 12. Unsettling Action and Text: A Collaborative Experience Bartram O'Neill 13 The Politics of Collaboration: Robin Rhode & The Drowned Piano Leora Maltz-Leca 14.Wedge: A Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration by Janine Antoni and Jill Sigman Sherri Irvin 15. Combination,Collaboration and Creation: The Case of Jasper Johns Peter Murphy 16. Gathering: Artistic Collaborations in Glass Daniella Barroqueiro