VisitorsStudio is a real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative ‘many to many’ dialogue, interviews, networked performance and collaborative polemic.

Through simple and accessible facilities, the VisitorsStudio web-based interface allows users to upload, manipulate and collage their own audio-visual files with others’, to remix existing media. VisitorsStudio provides a platform for the exploration of collective creativity for both emergent and established artists from a diverse array of geographical locations and social contexts.

Participants upload sound files and still/moving images (jpg, png, mp3, flv, swf) to a shared database, mixing and responding to each other’s compositions in real-time. Individuals can also chat with each other and are located in the interface by their own dancing-cursors.

VisitorsStudio Version2, incorporates new artistic tools and community building facilities. Users are able to schedule and promote their own networked performance programmes. These can be recorded, archived, rated, downloaded and redistributed as screensavers to users’ own desktops.

• 2009 Furtherfield was awarded the 2009 Grand Net Art Prize for VisitorsStudio by Machido Museum, Japan
• 2006 A Context Map of VisitorsStudio, by Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett
• 2004 Dissension Convention. VisitorsStudio performance with Michael Szpakowski, as part of a 5 day protest performance projected at Postmasters Gallery, New York