Composting the Net
These ten selected mailing lists are online discussion platforms related to new media art practices. They are the legacy of our networked culture and contain collective knowledge threaded by subject, author and date. Composting the Net uses hypertext preprocessor and Javascript to randomly retrieve and scramble the accumulated information.
AHA
Created in 2002 and hosted by the Italian organisation Isole nella Rete, the AHA mailing-list is a collective virtual place which advocates the free use of art and software and fosters exchange on activism, hacking and “artivism”.
http://lists.ecn.org/pipermail/aha/
NetBehaviour
Founded in 2004 by the artist-led organisation Furtherfield in London, the open email list was created to support the exchange of ideas, share events and opportunities, and encourage collaborations among their community.
https://lists.netbehaviour.org/pipermail/netbehaviour/
rohrpost
rohrpost is a German-speaking mailing list for media and net culture. Initiated by mikro in the beginning of 2000 and was closely tied to the community around the WMF club in Berlin. It dissolved in 2021.
https://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/rohrpost/
oldboys-list
Old Boys Network was a group of media artists and curators led by artist Cornelia Sollfrank. Under the slogan [the mode is the message - the code is the collective!] this mailing list focused on gender-specific aspects and cyberfeminism in the discourse on new media.
http://www.nettime.org/oldboys
IDC
The Mailing list has been operated by the Institute for Distributed Creativity since 2004 and was founded by sociologist Trebor Scholz. The research of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. The project was discontinued in 2017.
https://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/
SPECTRE
Initiated after the implosion of the Syndicate-Mailinglist, SPECTRE offers a channel for practical information exchange concerning events, projects and initiatives organised within the field of media culture. The list was initially hosted by Inke Arns and Andreas Broeckmann and is still active.
https://post.in-mind.de/pipermail/spectre/
New Media Curating
The email discussion list for the UK Education and Research communities started in 2001. An extension of the CRUMB website, it is run by curators Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook and aims to share existing knowledge and instigate new knowledge around the specific challenges of exhibiting and archiving new media art.
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A1=ind01&L=NEW-MEDIA-CURATING
-empyre-
The mailing list was instigated by Melinda Rackham in 2002 and conceived as a “soft-skinned space”. It facilitated online discussion on cross-disciplinary practices in networked media. Since 2010, Renate Ferro and Tim Murray from Cornell University organised monthly thematic discussions with invited contributors.
https://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/
Thingist
Thingist was a discussion forum aiming to redefine the relationship of new media culture, fine arts and social activism. It was part of the “The Thing”, a project launched in 1991 by Wolfgang Staehle, operated as a mailbox system accessible over the telephone network in New York feeding a Bulletin Board System (BBS), before moving online in 1995. Now regarded as an important founding institution for net and media culture it has fostered a community of practitioners who engaged in experiments with political organizing, artistic projects and cultural criticism.
https://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/thingist/
< nettime >
Founded in 1995 at the Venice Biennale, < nettime > is a communication space by and for people to discuss networked cultures and policies. Several conferences as well as print and online publications have been produced by the community. The list was initially moderated by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz and is still active.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/
