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title: Exquisite Branch
credits: Kamo
contents:
    - The exquisite corpse is a multiplayer game invented by the surrealists in which the participants compose a drawing or a story together.
    - Traditionally the game is played on a long sheet of paper, and each player draws a part.
    - The process requires to hide the drawing to the next person, but leaving them some hints to continue.
    - The following fellow keeps draw from there and so on.
    - The result is a weird linear narrative, in which the transition between authors are at the same time smooth and abrupt.

    - The Exquisite Branch is an online take on the game.
    - It questions concepts such as authorship and collaboration in the light of the digital age.
    - The original version is constrained to the single piece of paper and is doomed to be linear.
    - Here we can imagine our drawings forking and branching and go in different directions.
    - The way in which XB works recall the flows of a protocol like Git.

    - Instruction
    - There are 2 ways to get to the XB
    - either you navigate to https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/xquisite #TODO: QRCODE
    - or you receive a link from someone pointing to a specific branch
    - you can either start a new drawing, continue from the last contribuition or view all the branches
    - then it's time to scribble something or paint a masterpiece
    - and when you are done you can submit the drawing
    - you will receive a new link to share with others.
    - They will continue from your drawing, so leave some hints!

    - If you pass the link to just one person the xquisite drawing will continue linearly
    - but if you pass it to several people it will branch
    - resulting in multiple version with a common starting point.
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