Hi Mark
I hope you remember my getting in touch a few weeks back to tell you about a
discussion I'm running on the New Media Curating list? I know you're unable
to fully take part but part of what I'm trying to do is some public
research, so I'm asking you the following questions in front of the list in
the hope you'll reply directly - without having to keep up with the whole
month of discussion. (I have sent this email to the NMC list and BCC'd you
so your email address isn't visible. If you 'reply all' or reply to me and
CC the list - [log in to unmask] - your answers will go
straight out to everybody (and form part of the archive I'm trying to build
on the history of lists and online approaches to art history/criticism).
Thanks in advance for helping me out!
To kick things off, I'd like to ask you a bit about how Rhizome got
started.
I'm aware you were living in Berlin and had been involved in Nettime, but
what drove you to set up another list?
How did you expect Rhizome to differ?
Did you have any involvement with any earlier art-focused BBSs?
How soon did Rachel Greene and Alex Galloway join you and what were you each
responsible for?
How did Rhizome change and evolve over the years you were involved with it?
Did the list take on a distinct role in the media arts community and if so,
how would you describe that role?
Are there posts that spring to mind that felt pivotal or important at the
time particular texts or actions that stirred up valuable debate?
Do you think of Rhizome as being art historically significant? And if so,
how might you describe this significance particularly now you have some
historical and critical distance?
For more information on this online discussion see my opening post:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=new-media-curating;262b7d94.1
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