So far we've had little mention of the Syndicate list, which was extensively
chronicled in a post to Nettime in 2001 by founding members Inke Arns and
Andreas Broeckmann:
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0111/msg00077.html.
One of the things that I believe was so important to this list at the time
(and perhaps even more so with some historical perspective) was the voice it
gave people of the former Yugoslavia during its civil war. It's common place
now to talk about how platforms like Twitter break through political
censorship Iran and Egypt are good recent examples but on a list like
the Syndicate, such freedom of speech could be both a benefit and a
detractor, as Arns and Broeckmann note. I'd love to know if anyone involved
with the list at this time would like to recall individual posts that
illustrate this difficult period.
And also more generally if anyone would venture an account of their
relationship with the Syndicate what collaboration its led to, and what
it was like to lose it especially in light of the comments we've already
had about how much of loss the Rhizome Raw list was.
Inke and Andreas, I've BCC'd you in case you have time to offer anything to
this discussion on Media Art Curating I can forward your responses if you
are not current subscribers/are pushed for time. You'll find more on this
month's discussions here:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=new-media-curating
All the best,
Charlotte
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