Re: <nettime> report_on_NNA

[Murphy <murphy@thing.net>]

On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:13 AM, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
> (for me the question is, whether it is possible to get out of
> the stale-mate that the list seems to be in; is it possible to make
> communication more fluid again, or is the list just too old after 11
> years? vuk - whatever happened to the spirit of 1996?)
>

If I remember correctly, many of the same questions were being asked
in 1996 when a lot of the artists on the list felt constrained by the
moderation and left or stopped posting. Since The Upgrade started
out as an artists' group in NYC there's probably some concern about
nettime being presented as an art project in that context -- a subject
that is still relevant and should be discussed on .... nettime!

not vuk

Robbin Murphy
THE THING, Inc.



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