The Surrealists used to play a game called Exquisite Corpse. You take a strip of paper and fold it into, say, six. Think of each of the strips between folds as a “tile.” Pass the folded strip around the table (of course you're doing this in bar, a cafe, or after dinner at one of your Surrealist dens), and each person draws part of a human figure in a tile. The group works its way down the strip, tile by tile. The constraint is that you only see your blank tile, along with a few stubs of lines that the previous artist drew to overlap the fold. And you overlap a few lines across the fold into the tile below yours, for the next artist to hook into.<\/p>\n
Now, what with this being the 21st century, suppose that your “tiles” are digital paintings. One possibility here is to hook the tiles togtether along their edges, like patches of a quilt. There's this way-cool art group called iCE<\/a> which enables digital artists to collaborate in such “quilts” over the web.<\/p>\n
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