<subject>Welcome, and information on the <oldboys>-lis</subject>
<from>Cornelia Sollfrank</from>
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<date>Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:28:29 +0000</date>
<content>Welcome to the mailing list of Old Boys Network, <oldboys-list>!
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WHAT IT IS ABOUT:
<oldboys-list> is an international discussion mailing list owned by the Old Boys Network.
OBN is regarded as the first international Cyberfeminist alliance and has been founded in 1997 in Berlin. Under the umbrella of the term 'Cyberfeminism' OBN contributes to the critical discourse on new media, especially gender-specific aspects.
OBN is dedicated to appropriating, creating and disseminating Cyberfeminisms (plural). OBN creates real and virtual spaces where Cyberfeminists can research, experiment, communicate and act. The OBN platforms aim to provide a contextualized presence for the diverse and interdisciplinary approaches to Cyberfeminism. One of these platforms is <oldboys list>.
One of the basic rules of OBN is that every member is required to call herself a woman (without consideration of the biological base of this intelligent life-form). With regard to its contents - the elaboration of Cyberfeminisms - our aim is the principle of disagreement!
Additional to our communication in virtual space OBN regularly organizes real space meetings.
- Second conference: 'next Cyberfeminist International', 1999, Rotterdam, de Balie (in cooperation with 'next5mintues, festival for tactical media, Amsterdam).
Since OBN has come into being it's personnel as well as the organisatorial structure have been in a constant flow.
If you want to learn more about the regulating structure of OBN, and you are interested in finding out what is special about this transitory network, please visit our website (currently being redesigned by Slowenian artist Irena Woelle).
http://www.obn.org
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<subject>[oldboys] Personal Welcome!</subject>
<from>Cornelia Sollfrank</from>
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<date>Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:25:13 +0100</date>
<content>Welcome to the <oldboys>-list!
As I have already announced to you individually some weeks ago, OBN has finally installed it's mailinglist. It is running on the list server of CCC, Chaos Computer Club in Berlin, which is the German hacker's club. About 150 cyberfeminists have subscribed so far.
Attached to the list is a searchable webarchive: http://www.nettime.org/oldboys
This means that <oldboys>-list is an open list and everyone who is interested can follow what is going on here.
In order to give you a better understanding of what OBN used to be and what it is now, and also what the list is supposed to be used for, I would like to describe the situation of OBN from MY PERSONAL point of view.
I am sure, most of you know OBN through our conferences and the documentary readers. Indeed, the ’real' platforms of OBN have been dominant so far, in contrast to our ’virtual' ones. But this mailinglist is the first step to improve our virtual presence and communication, and is meant to host a global discourse on Cyberfeminism.
As a matter of fact, we are also working currently on the relaunch of our website. Irena Woelle from Ljubljana is our webdesigner, and we are looking forward to our new site, which will represent what OBN is, much better than the current one. Amongst many other things, next to a theory section, there will also be a gallery space, and a calendar which contains all current events in which cyberfeminists take part. As soon as we have a Beta-version, we will put it up and inform you, as well as ask you for your contributions.
Furthermore OBN is planning a third international conference, called ’next Cyberfeminist International' which hopefully will take place in November this year in Hamburg. The current situation is, that we are in the middle of organizing the funding for the conference. We will keep you updated about this and send out a call as soon as we can verify the details.
OBN itself has gone through several major shifts in the almost four years of it's existence, shifts in personnel and shifts in the organisatorial structure. Some of you might know our video ’processing cyberfeminism' which represented the so-called core-group of OBN. Our current website also still contains this outdated information that there is something like a core-group. There used to be one, right, and it consisted of Cornelia Sollfrank, Susanne Ackers, Julianne Pierce, Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche, Faith Wilding, Yvonne Volkart, Verena Kuni. But we had to realize after a while that it was no longer functional, for several reasons. For me, most irritating was the fact that the existence of a core-group transported the idea of a closed inner circle to the public, and consequently many interested people felt uncomfortable and not really welcome. I feel very sorry for that, because OBN was always meant to be an open network.
About one year ago, the core-group abolished itself in order to open up the structure and make space for new boys, new ideas, new projects, and new cyberfeminisms. Still, there was no infrastructure where we could have announced and praticed our desire for change. We found ourselves in the contradictory situation that it was up to the ex-core-group again to build these new structures.
In this very transitional phase during the last year, a fragmented ex-core-group consisting of Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche, Verena Kuni, myself and partly Susanne Ackers gathered again and made efforts in order to realize the transition of OBN. We have set up the list, made the concept and raised money for the new website, thought and talked about the possible future of OBN, and are now busy making the next International happen.
I would like to welcome you, on this list and in the network. Please understand OBN as an open structure where activities and contributions are welcome, and of course a lot of qualified critique;-) And, be also aware that all the work which the boys have invested so far in OBN was voluntary. Although, our ressources are very limited, we try to make things happen, but we can not function as a service business.
I'm looking forward to your input and many lively discussions, and hope you enjoy this piece of autonomous infrastructure. Make the best out of it!
To find out more about OBN and the current regulatory structure, pls. send a mail to <oldboys-info@lists.ccc.de> and/or <oldboys-faq@lists.ccc.de>
This list is intended for those involved in curating, exhibiting, archiving or interpreting new media art (including net.art, interactive installations, digital video
etc.)
It is the discussion list of the CRUMB web site (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss http://www.newmedia.sunderland.ac.uk/crumb/).
The list will be active from March 2001, and list members will be emailed with details nearer the time.
Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook
CRUMB editors and new-media-curating list owners</content>
-empyre- is a soft space where invited guests from the media arts field - artists, theorists, curators, producers and admisistrators can discuss their projects, publications, productions, and share knowledge and experience. it's specific to the issues which surround media arts, without necessarily being academically referenced, nor concerned with deliniating areas of practice into interactive, or digital, or net, or rom, or pda, or web, or text, or flash art.
guests will send out an initial email statement about thier work/project/publiction, and then for two or so weeks will be open to comment, questions, discussion around the topics. on 15 january 2002 the discussion starts with Ollivier Dyens ( bio at http://www.subtle.net/empyrean/empyre/dyens.html ) who has generously agreed to be the test guest.. a new guest will be invited at regular intervals..currently every second month, however depending on the level of interaction perhaps i will make it more or less frequent. administratively there may still some glitches to be ironed out over the next few weeks as well - the net is never a seamless experience.
many people have subscribed since i opened the list a few days ago which is great.. and leads me to think a lot of you want something extra in the way of content from your email.. however i know i get enormous amount of email in my in box everyday, a lot of it duplicated info  which i have to filter out..
 -empyre- is not the place for conference announcements, or art show invitations or email text works. i think we are all connected to (often too) many networks which provide these functions already.If anyone consistantly spams the list, sends attachments, or is abusive towards other members i will unsubscribe them.
 
as i have made the subscriber list invisible so that it can't be harvested by bulk emailers, i would encourage people to post a brief introduction to the list before the first guest arrives.  i'm glad to see new names, as well as so many subscribers whom iv'e known in other hard and digital realms over the years, and i look forward to your participation, which has always been informative and stimulating... often contraversial and sometimes extremely funny.
 
-empyre- is an experiment in this format, and like most mailing lists will have an organic lifespan generating its unique rhythms, highs ands lows,  jumping between furious pace and slow silences... basically -empyre- will live or die according to your input, - you are the animating fluid of -empyre-
