The Core group engages in near-daily conversations via email to decide on which projects we want to pursue and how to go about getting things done. The manifesto expresses the collaborative, experimental nature of the Material Collective that continues to fuel our work and our relationships with each other. One of the first things we wrote together was our Manifesto, which we read aloud during a session at Kalamazoo in 2012. That basis of respect and good-will allows us to operate from a solid base. Many of us were already friends or knew each other from conferences when we formed, and we all have a great deal of respect for one another. MC: Our leadership consists of ten people (the Core Committee). RAR: Would you please begin by describing what is particular about the Material Collective (MC)? How does it function? What are the benefits and challenges of your non-hierarchical structure? If you’re interesting in joining the Material Collective, you can find them online, on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. We thank the MC for generously agreeing to participate and providing such thoughtful, considered answers to our questions. Williams), who composed their responses collectively. Harris, Asa Simon Mittman, Karen Overbey, Ben C. The following interview took place via email in September and October 2018 between the editors of RAR Volume 33/34 (Kaitlin Booher, Stephen Mack, Sophie Ong, and Kathleen Pierce) and the Material Collective’s Core Committee (Marian Bleeke, Jennifer Borland, Rachel Dressler, Martha Easton, Anne F. They engage timely issues of interest not only to RAR’s readership and scholars of visual culture, but also to academics from related fields interested in rethinking traditional modes of organizing and communicating within the academy. We wanted to speak with the Material Collective because they push the boundaries of art history. Together, these scholars form the Core Committee of the Material Collective (MC). Embracing the possibilities of this new platform, it seemed appropriate that we interview not just one, but ten art historians who are themselves invested in exploring the internet as a productive platform for scholarly communication, publishing, crowdsourcing, activism, and community building. For Volume 33/34, the editors of RAR have renewed these efforts with the publication of our first interview since moving to a fully online publication model. In its earliest issues, the Rutgers Art Review (RAR) published interviews with established art historians alongside essays by graduate students.
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