I agree Mez. I remained on some of the lists because the spam.art on them didn't bother me - it even entertained. Other lists I left as I found the work trying. But I do remember some people getting quite upset. It was the same with the flame-wars (before we developed more sophisticated online social capabilities). I have to take my share of the blame for stressing some people out unnecessarily.
Best Simon Simon Biggs s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk Skype: simonbiggsuk http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ Research Professor edinburgh college of art http://www.eca.ac.uk/ Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice http://www.elmcip.net/ Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts > From: mez breeze <netwur...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:08:37 +1000 > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Invitation to join me > > ...having been 1 of the celebrated "spam artists" back in the days of > Integer>NN, it was a [relatively easy] option then [as it is now] 2 set up > filters/blocks in regards 2 material list users find > objectionable/overloading. i do agree, simon, that it might b deemed > arrogant to deluge ppl with mammoth data hits: i think to associate this > with the 7-11 list outpourings we did back in the late 90's is misleading. > the art lists we "spam"/net.artists utilized knew full-well about our art > practices + most encouraged it. context, content + the mechanisms of > exclusion should b examined here as well as allusions 2 data-deluges;) > > chunks, > @netwurker > > -- > Reality Engineer> > Synthetic Environment Strategist> > Game[r + ] Theorist. > ::http://unhub.com/netwurker :: > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Simon Biggs <s.bi...@eca.ac.uk> wrote: > >> Spammer art was a pain when we all had dial up and slow connections. It >> cost >> money as we paid for the minute (or MB). These days, for most of us, spam, >> art or not, is more an annoyance than an injury. However, there are many >> parts of the world who are still on capped, slow and pay per unit >> connections. In that context it is potentially arrogant, even injurious, to >> deluge people with data who weren't expecting it. >> >> Best >> >> Simon >> >> >> Simon Biggs >> s.bi...@eca.ac.uk si...@littlepig.org.uk >> Skype: simonbiggsuk >> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ >> >> Research Professor edinburgh college of art >> http://www.eca.ac.uk/ >> Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments >> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ >> Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice >> http://www.elmcip.net/ >> Centre for Film, Performance and Media Arts >> http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/film-performance-media-arts >> >> >>> From: Helen Sloan <he...@scansite.org> >>> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >>> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >>> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:19:40 +0100 >>> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >>> <netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org> >>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Invitation to join me >>> >>> Dear Karens, >>> >>> I remember Integer, NN etc well and spent hours deleting their prolific >>> contributions to listings some of which I looked at and others went >>> unread. It¹s true that there was a mass exodus from Syndicate during that >>> time which was a pity as it did good things and it never really >> recovered. >>> Finally, I understood what was going on but felt a little sad as well. >> I¹m >>> not up for a culture that¹s worth preserving eating itself. >>> >>> I¹m all for this activity in a way but why ( as happened in Syndicate¹s >>> case) do it to ourselves? There must be much more of a statement to be >> made >>> to do it in other contexts. In this respect, I really liked what Heath >>> Bunting and Rachel Baker et al did with supermarkets at about the same >> time >>> as these others. >>> >>> We¹re entering hard times and in my opinion we should be careful about >> the >>> way we do these kinds of interventions now. >>> >>> But hey, you can tell me that I don¹t understand and I can take it. Just >> a >>> thought. I look forward to hearing more from Karens but hope you don¹t >>> implode. >>> >>> Best >>> Helen >>> Helen Sloan >>> SCAN >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
