Art as a social experiment

Don't be disappointed, there is no news here: social networking is everywhere. But it has become so much of the talk of the town that we almost forget that there is something real behind. New practices really do emerge.

For instance, we know that social networking applications can change the way people collaborate through a common digital object. It makes writing collaborative. I am actually wondering whether this may be related to older practices of storytelling, when storytelling was pretty much an oral tradition and stories got embroidened after generations and generations of narrators put their touch to them.

Now we also see art becoming more collective, and temporary. Who is to complain about that?