The Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. IDC offers a list that serves as an idea pool within the research interests of the Institute.

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Months of extensive discussion on the IDC-list, from June to November, have now culminated to the conference Internet as Playground and Factory, organized at The New Shool, New York, November 12-14. At this international event about 100 activists, lawyers, media scholars, anthropologists, artists, students, programmers, historians, and social media experts come together to reevaluate free labor, play, and pleasure in an economy that is increasingly driven by the expropriation of online sociality. On Friday and Saturday, parts of the discussions will be streamed from this first event in a series of biennial conferences about the politics of digital media.

Spectacular threads on the IDC list evolved from January’s topic – Ethics of Participation – triggered by the YouTube sellout, via threads on curriculum development for new media and the ethics of leisure, to February’s discussion on How does social media educate? Led by moderator Ulises Meijas, the participants have questioned whether social media train consumers or educate critical thinkers, and how we should understand the 'social' in social media?

The discussion on Architecture and Situated Technologies continues on the IDC list. Picking up on the main theme of ISEA2006 in San Jose, the August thread on "Interactive City - irrelevant mobile entertainment?" has debated corporate and activist, critical and playful dimensions of location based art - and the situations of big festivals within the host city's cultural economy.

On the IDC list, a 3-month discussion leading up to the Architecture and Situated Technologies symposium has kicked off, with Trebor Scholtz moderating July's theme on the networked public sphere. So far the discussion has touched on theoretical and practical approaches to web and physical places, on platforms as art, and participation (especially of women in list cultures).