It is a response to cognitive accounts of creativity exemplified by the widely used four Ps framework.
"[1] Distributed creativity is not one artist working on one object but rather a group of authors contributing to an artwork.
The obsession with objects as described by Walter Benjamin is replaced with an enthusiasm for the process of interaction.
Bill Nichols describes the latter in his essay "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems."
There are several centres around the world that have dedicated network performance spaces and teams researching how to make music with people in distributed environments, for instance SoundWIRE Research Group at CCRMA, Stanford University and the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast.