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01."bootlab"
2000
Independent media organization established by Pit Schultz and Diana McCarty in Berlin's Mitte district. bootlab engages in various experiments on cities and wireless technology, and also operates the reboot.fm internet radio station.
http://bootlab.org/
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02."Bytes for all"
1999
Under the slogan, "computing and Internet for the majority of the world", founders Frederick Noronha (India) and Partha Pratim Sarker (Bangladesh) tackle on the Bytes for all Website and in their newsletter the problem of the digital divide in South Asia.
http://www.bytesforall.org/
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03."Creative Commons (CC)"
2001
Initiated by Lawrence Lessig, a jurist who has been investigating into ways of knowledge sharing within digital environments, Creative Commons promote a flexible, international copyright system in which individuals can declare ways of usage and distribution of their own creations.
http://creativecommons.org/
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04."Dorkbot"
2000
A community of "people doing strange things with electricity" established by Columbia University lecturer Douglas Repetto. The geeky network of individuals creating objects (one may call "works" or "products") out of cheap materials keeps expanding, and currently spans more than 20 cities around the world.
http://dorkbot.org/
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05."EFF"
1990
Based in San Francisco, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is a group of knowledgeable scientists, technicians and volunteers aiming at ways of knowledge sharing while maintaining individual rights in digital environments. CC mastermind Lawrence Lessig is also involved.
http://eff.org/
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06."empyre"
2000
empyre is an international new media arts mailing list run by Melinda Rackham in Sydney. It has a monthly topic and editors/moderators that come on board to investigate the issue intensively from their points of expertise.
http://www.subtle.net/empyrean/empyre/
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07."faces"
1997
Initiated by Kathy Rae Hoffmann and Diana McCarty, faces takes a role as a mailing list for women in media, including media artists, programmers, theorists, designers, curators, activists, etc. A dynamic community interface is now under preparation.
http://www.faces-l.net
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08."fibreculture"
2001
Forum for critical discussions of wide-ranged topics including new media culture and education in Australia, the country's IT politics, and others. fibreculture incorporates a mailing list, a Website, a Web journal and other parts that also touch upon philosophical and political deliberation on forms of expression using new media.
http://www.fibreculture.org/
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09."indymedia (Independent Media Center)"
1999
An international, grassroots-sort of collective made up of numerous journalists and other individuals from various independent media organizations, the Independent Media Center serves as a base for discussion on all kinds of political and social issues we are confronted with on both local and global levels. Visitors to the site can choose from several languages.
http://www.indymedia.org
http://www.indymedia.org
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10."ISEA"
1990
ISEA (Inter-society for the Electronic Arts) initiated in Holland is an international organization dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange among individuals and institutions from the fields of art, science and technology. The "International Symposium on Electronic Art" (also "ISEA") is held biennially, in a different city each time.
http://www.isea-web.org/
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11."metamute"
1997
Online platform of "Mute" magazine, which was launched in 1994 by Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman. Including also the "OpenMute" and "You Are Here" projects, the site is dedicated to the discussion of issues of art, technology and society under the slogan, "culture and politics after the Net".
http://www.metamute.com/
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12."nettime-l (in english)"
1995)
Started up in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz, nettime is an international platform for discussion (in English) on politics of culture and new media. A number of "nettime" sites exist in different languages.
http://www.nettime.org/
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13."neural.it "
1997
Online version of the Italian "neural" magazine that has been focusing on "hacktivism", E-music, new media art and other topics since its launch in the late '90s (English edition available since 2003). Edited by Alessandoro Ludovico, neural.it features among others articles and a radio program.
http://neural.it/
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14."Oekonux"
2001, 02, 04
The Oekonux conferences take place in different cities each time, discussing possibilities of free software from economical and political perspectives.
http://www.oekonux.org/
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15."Processing"
2001
Free community established by Casey Reas and Ben Fry aiming to develop programming languages/environments for visual-based studies of programming technology, targeting artists as well as the man on the street.
http://processing.org/
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16."Public Netbase"
1994
Launched by media artist Konrad Becker to focus on local issues in Vienna and other areas of Austria, while hosting also international exhibitions and conferences such as "World-information.org" to pragmatically explore influences of new technologies on culture, society and politics.
http://www.t0.or.at/t0/
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17."Readme"
2002, 03, 04
Alexei Shulgin and Olga Goriunova organize this festival for software art in a different city each time, as an open venue for participants to explore the boundaries of art and software culture. See also the accompanying Runme.org site introducing works of software art.(The following URL is the Readme Website of 2004).
http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/
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18."Rhizome"
1996
New York-based Rhizome.org serves as an online platform for the global new media art community. Not only involved with the production and hosting of commissioned new works, but also in discussions, publications, event and others, Rhizome is one of the world's epicentres of Net art.
http://www.rhizome.org/
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19."Sarai"
2000
Delhi-based media organization Sarai connects the city's here and now with the global discourse on such topics as film, new media, technology or politics, in publications, conferences, online projects, and other activities.
http://www.sarai.net/
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20."Slashdot"
1997
Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda and Jeff "Hemos" Bates established Slashdot to promote open journalism mainly on computer-related topics. The site's Japanese version is operating since 2001.
http://slashdot.org/
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21."spectre"
2001
Mailing list initiated by Syndicate founders Andreas Broeckmann and Inke Arns to promote media culture of a "Deep Europe": an accumulation of multilayered cultural identities rather than simply a group of different countries. Spectre also functions as a platform for international exchange of information.
http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
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22."Thing, The"
1991
Community of art-related individuals, set up in the form of a BBS site by NY-based artists and critics. Contents include online works of (contemporary) art, discussions, critique and more. Subdivisions of the site exist in cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt and Rome.
http://bbs.thing.net/
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23."V2"
1994
Site of the V2_ media center in Rotterdam. An independent organization since the early 1980s, V2_ is hosting a number of pioneering events including DEAF: Dutch Electronic Art Festival (held biennially). Other activities include the V2_Lab, publications, and an extensive online archive.
http://www.v2.nl
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24."Waag Society"
1997
Media center located in Amsterdam, in the remains of an old, 15th century chateau that has been partly dissected in the 17th century. A "society for old and new media", Waag supports activities in art and culture, including also residency programs for artists.
http://www.waag.org
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25."Wizards of OS"
1999, 2001, 2004
The Wizards of OS host large-scale conferences (of the same title) on open-source issues in Berlin.
http://wizards-of-os.org/
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26."Xchange"
1997
by E-Lab
Xchange was born following the "Xchange on-air session" event that was initiated by E-Lab in Riga in 1997. Next to functioning as a hub for Internet radio stations around the world and organizing a mailing list, Xchange support individual distribution of audio files via the Net.
http://xchange.re-lab.net/
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January 22(Sat.)
February 22(Tue.)-27(Sun.)
Animation-table
"Move in a second! Animation workshop"