by Julian Priest

Join. is a collaborative artwork based on the children’s colouring-in book classic, Join the Dots. Participants in Open Congress at Tate Britain were invited to be Developers of an original artwork one dot at a time.

Developers registered to join the aesthetic team, and, in turn, placed one dot anywhere on a provided blank sheet. Dots were marked with a sequentially allocated revision number.
Developers were asked to use their skill and artistic judgement to place a dot in such a way that it would contribute to a finished image which would be created by joining the dots with straight lines.
In order to register, developers agreed to release their dot under the Creative Commons share-alike by attribution license. (See Appendix A)

At the end of the Open Congress Development Period (7 and 8 October), registration was closed and the art work, complete with registration documents, will now be donated to Tate or a similar UK national collection.

The licensing of the work ensures that others are free to copy, distribute the work, or make images of it and derivative works, as long as all Developers are attributed, and the license is retained.

Developers
7th October 2005
•1 Colm
•2 Saul
•3 Heather
•4 Lucia
•5 Peter Maloney
•6 Tim O’Riley
•7 Luci Eyers
•8 Rory Okey
•9 Amy Bish
•10 Jon Hazell
•11 Nicola Trew
•12 Shu Lea Chang
•13 Tim Jones
•14 Corrado
•15 Kt
•16 Saskia
•17 Sebastien
•18 Marina
•19 Chris Commons
•20 Akeem
•21 Lubna Azhar
•22 Klara
•23 Felicity Priest
•24 Emma Jones
•25 Kerry Hull
•26 Lizzie Neilson
•27 Stephen
•28 Anne Taylor
•29 Rosie Lancaster
•30 Gini Simpson
•31 Monika Parrinder
•32 Colin Davies
•33 Lucie Hernandez
•34 Stefano Campigli
•35 Prodical
•36 Dunc
•37 Aless Reba
•38 Pras
•39 David Goldenberg
•40 Marc Tuters
•41 Auka Touwslager
•42 Otto E Roessler
•43 Hoag
•44 Anthony Iles
•45 Rob Myers
•46 Pierre Vella
•47 Tom Corby
•48 Adam John Hyde [*]
•49 Louise Wright
•50 C30,C60,C90,Go!
•51 Rachel Baker
•52 Sophie von Olfers
•53 Henrik
•54 Mirela
•55 Liz Taylor
•56 Fergus
•57 Gemma
•58 Tim Smith
•59 Hayley Newman
•60 Maleve, Nicola
•61 Ele
•62 Natxo

8th October 2005

•63 David Berry
•64 Trine Bjorkmann Berry
•65 Alessandra
•66 Rog
•67 Marc Garrett
•68 Karen Murray
•69 Greg Jones
•70 Thomas Thaler
•71 Susan Diab
•72 Manuela
•73 Stefan Szczelkun
•74 Olly
•75 Pete Gomes
•76 Cory Doctorow [*]
•77 Luke Nicholson
•78 Mikey
•79 Helene Bjorkmann Berry
•80 Arabella Bonny Bee Trumpeter
•81 Julian Burton
•82 Julia Lalla-Maharajh
•83 Lance
•84 Alan
•85 Mary Anne Francis
•86 Pedro Inoue
•87 Noa
•88 Raven
•89 Occassionally Somewhere
•90 Richard Barbrook
•91 Linda Drew
•92 Emily
•93 Bob
•94 Darrel Stadlen
•95 Fred
•96 Law’s Burden
•97 Maija
•98 Matthew Robinson
•99 Julian Priest
•100 Apixel
•101 Ron
•102 John Stack
•103 Jennifer Kirk
•104 Mark Pheasant
•105 Veverica
•106 Atty
•107 Mimika
•108 Lisa Stansbie
•109 Rebecca
•110 Rob Campbell
•111 Lori MacKellar
•112 Felix
•113 Jesi
•114 Louise Kroeze
•115 Hannah
•116 U-SUN HU
•117 Nick Thurston
•118 Chung
•119 Neil Cummings
•120 Wei-ho Ng
•121 Laurence

License Amendments
Two developers felt that the licensing of their dots was overly restrictive and made the following amendments:
•48. Adam John Hyde added: “I dedicate my dot to the Public Domain”.
•76. Cory Doctorow replaced the suggested licence with: Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication

As the public domain stipulations are less restrictive than the Creative Commons Share Alike license, authors wishing to include dots in for instance a non-attributed derivative work may use dots 48 and 76 only.

Derivative Works
A week after the ‘Open Congress’ on Saturday 15th October 2005, the Join Dot Sprint was held in the Tate Britain as part of the Dotty Tate family art event. Using A3 printed copies of the original artwork from the Congress, children were asked to join the dots in whatever order they liked to produce original derivative works, using the Join. source artwork. They were also asked whether they would like to donate their works to a UK national art collection.

Works by the following young artists can be seen at http://www.joindot.org/i [1]

•Alex 027
•Alice Frances King 006
•Anna Redman 003
•Catherine Clampman 10 008
•Cherice / Karen Wotton 038
•Cherice 011
•Cherice Harris 010 047
•Emily Green 043
•Emma Winetrobe 024
•Harry Redman 015
•Hugh 001
•Jade Parker 018 025 032 042 046
•Jennifer Winetrobe 031
•Jess Townsend 022
•Kate Garry 009
•Leanda Harris 004 012 013 014 017 020 021 029 036 041 045
•Maedleine Bone 030
•Maija Timonen 002
•Miranda Townsend 019
•Nathan 044
•PPXTO PP P Pe 026
•R.T. 016
•Sarah 023 034
•Sarah M 033
•Tania Pinheiro 028 037 039 040
•Tattiana Kaonga 007
•Zahra Hadi 005 035

Numbering
Each version of Join. has a unique version number constructed as follows:

Branch.Revision.Derivative

A new sheet of paper begins a new major Branch of the piece with each placed dot recorded as a Revision Number.

Derivative works are numbered sequentially as sub-versions of the Branch and Revision.

During a development period Branches are marked ‘development’ and are marked ‘stable’ upon release.

The current release is: 1.121 stable.
The most recent derivative work is: 1.121.047

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following:

•The Developers
•The Young Artists
•Open Congress
•Dottie Tate
•Tate Britain
•Marina Vishmidt
•Maija Timonen
•Felicity Priest
•Saul Albert
•John Heseltine
•Creative Commons
•John Purcell Paper
•Mark at City Officel Audio Ltd.
•Gary Monteith at DIP systems

Appendix A - Creative Commons Licence

Join. is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales licence.
http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk  [2]

Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England And Wales

You are free:
- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
- to make derivative works
- to make commercial use of the work

Under the following conditions:
    - Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.    
    - Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.    

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license)
http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/legalcode [3]

17th January 2006

Published under this licence: http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk

Lead Developer of Join. - Julian PriestURL: http://www.joindot.org [4] Version: 1.121 stable