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>Sorry for the delayed response to the postings by Simon and Myron >(I'm on digest). While I can understand the pressures faced by >Agricola who has maintained his own site over the years, while >creating exciting work, I'm not sure I'd rush onto the train of >depression. I've been involved with a number of initiatives lately that suggest continuing production within the broad realm of net.art, particularly if we understand it in the broadest sense, which, of course, could also include mobile art projects. And if we were to consider the efforts of collaborative net.art sites, such as CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA (http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu), low-fi (www.low-fi.org), or mobilegaze (www.mobilegaze.org) that present internet art within the context of crucial social and cultural issues impacting the net and virtual communication, we might recognize less of a net.art ghetto than the presentation and celebration of art projects that capitalize on the flexibility and communicational extensivess of the web. The similar aim of other initiatives, such as a new one being launched by Mute, is to launch and present new net.art projects in the broader spectrum of what Tom Corby refers to as "network art," perhaps an "expansion" of what's been known in other contexts as "public art." Still, recognizing that some artists will migrate from the web for various reasons, I'm making the archivization of net.art projects, having been taken or soon to be taken off-line, one of the priorities of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell. Since we're now refining the infrastructure of this emergent archive, we're able to consider many formulas for achieving this--initially maintaining off-line files of works available for on-site research in the Archive (we're working on getting the Archive up and running for public consultation within the next few months), but perhaps a partnering with folks such as Agricola for continued online access to works previously available on his site (were it to go off-line). I'd be interested to hear from anyone with ideas about this archivization challenge, either via this listserve or privately. Best, Tim -- Timothy Murray Professor of Comparative Literature and English Director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell Library Co-Curator, CTHEORY Multimedia: http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu 285 Goldwin Smith Hall Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 office: 607-255-4012 e-mail: [log in to unmask]