Across boundaries: Boundary Mediums as Data in a distribute and collaborative environment

Cross-disciplinary collaborations are increasingly common in art and design, with many artists drawing on or applying knowledge and skills from outside their field in their creative processes. Cross- disciplinary collaboration, in turn, provides a means for artists to access and apply knowledge and skills from unfamiliar fields. Data, as a presence that pervades our surroundings, also present in the cross-disciplinary collaborative environments. The process of cross-disciplinary collaboration is the flow of data and information through the collaborative environment, the knowledge and information carried by these data flows enables the flow of knowledge and its reconstruction in unfamiliar fields which forms an important part of the collaborative environment. This research identifies and defines a diverse form of data called 'boundary medium'. Try to analysis and defines how the 'boundary medium' works in cross-disciplinary (jewellery and visual arts) and distributed collaborative environment to extend the understanding of both collaborators, assisting in deconstructing, picking up and reconstructing the knowledge of both collaborators and their fields. This paper sits in a part of a larger ongoing PhD research on cross- disciplinary jewellery, present 3 illustrative examples of the 'boundary mediums' identified in the practice, the remaining kinds of 'boundary mediums’ identified in the research and more detailed analysis will be discussed and presented in the PhD research in the future.