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On 03/10/13 02:18 AM, Christiane Paul, Curatorial wrote: > There definitely was art-talking in LambdaMOO, but I don't have > concrete leads (Judy Malloy has written about Narratives and > Narrative Structures in the environment - > http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/moopap.html). Robert Nideffer's > PROXY was a very involved art project that used a MUD structure (it > was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial). Malloy's work in LambdaMOO when she was artist in residence there at Xerox Parc was lost as part of the normal maintenance of the virtual world's database. This is a common problem for MUD history. The book that essay was published in does have more text from the project, but that's all that remains outside of her archive at Duke University as far as I know. MediaMOO (which seems to have shut down only a couple of months ago) was for media researchers (this included people involved in new media art) but was also used for art making. See here for details, papers and transcripts: http://web.archive.org/web/20070222051802/http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/MediaMOO/ There was also PMC MOO (which also seems to have shut down only a couple of months ago), the MOO of the journal Postmodern Culture, which certainly felt like art and was steeped in theory: http://pmc.iath.virginia.edu/pmc-moo.html All of this raises one of the big problems with art history online, however conceived, outside of mailing lists. Resources are not archived in a distributed way, as they are with copies of books and journals in print libraries. Historically key FTP and MUD sites have disappeared without trace, and the Internet Archive is a single point of failure for web history that does not reach back further than the late 1990s. Making conservation a problem for art history rather than of it...