atCalls started as a social utopia: free circulation of relevant information ought to be a social sculpture and undermine the capitalistic functionality of some fields of artistic practises. executed as a free platform of information about calls concerning fine arts, media arts and theory the aim was to decrease the pressure of competition by providing equal access to all interested parties. often artists -especially in the net-context- are acting as collectives, but when it comes to redistribution of calls and opportunities most of them are not willing to pass on the according information. too big is the pressure to catch every single chance to enhance their individual career advancements or to get support for their own projects.
the setup and expansion of the infrastructure for atCalls came about in different steps: starting as an unregular newsletter distributed to friends only, soon a blog was installed to make the gathered calls easier accessible to a broader public. Not long after this a regular newsletter had been set up. this form of communication persisted over the years, only the process of collecting information changed from time to time. different free blog-platforms and other systems had been tested to optimize the workflow. after some unsuccessful attempts to get funds of different kinds the project has been discontinued since october 2007. the amount of regular users at this time worldwide was around 500. http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/atcalls/index.html -- rohrpost - deutschsprachige Liste zur Kultur digitaler Medien und Netze Archiv: http://www.nettime.org/rohrpost http://post.openoffice.de/pipermail/rohrpost/ Ent/Subskribieren: http://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rohrpost/