Judy Malloy, Editor
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An Authoring Software Digital Humanities Resource
Social networking environments, where artists and writers come together in the discussion, creation,
and sharing of art and literature,
encompass conferencing systems, email, Twitter and Second Life, among many others. Ideally,
on software-mediated social media platforms there is an energy that reflects and catalyzes the
artmaking process, fostering a creative bonding -- not only for writers and artists working in
new media art and literature but also for contemporary culture as a whole, including
artists in the fields of music, dance, and theater, among many others.
Social Media Community, an Authoring Software resource in progress,
looks at both historic and contemporary social media platforms in terms of their historical and
contemporary roles in the creation of cultural community on the Internet.
This first build
focuses on historic social media communities.
Email, Network Email
__Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet,
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
__John Quarterman, The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide. Bedford,
MA: Digital Press, 1990.
__Ray Tomlinson
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"The First Network Email"
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The First Email Computer
The Community Memory, 1973-1975
"The idea is to work with a process whereby technological tools, like computers,
are used by the people themselves to shape their own lives and communities in sane and liberating ways.
In this case the computer enables the creation of a communal memory bank, accessible to anyone in the community. With this, we can work on providing the information,
services, skills, education, and economic strength our community needs."
Community Memory Flyer

The first Community Memory terminal. Housed in a cardbox
box at Leopold's Records in Berkeley, California,
it was an ASR-33 Teletype connected by a 110-baud line
to an XDS-940 host in San Francisco.
(Photo licensed by Mark Szpakowski for the Community Memory Project
under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike)
__Lee Felsenstein:
The First Community Memory, The Computer History Museum, 2011
__Joyce Slaton,
"Remembering Community Memory, The Berkeley beginnings of online community",
San Francisco Gate, December 13, 2001
__Mark Szpakowski,
Community Memory Home
USENET, 1979-
__Cara Bonnett,
"A Piece of Internet History", DukeToday, May 17, 2010
__Gene Spafford,
"Usenet Software: History and Sources"
ARTBOX/ARTEX, 1981-1991
"My belief in this new order of the text, actually a new order of discourse, and my wish to exercise
and celebrate the participatory mode of dispersed authorship which networking affords, led me to devise a
project wholly concer
ned with the interweaving of textual inputs from a global distribution of artists.
This became 'La Plissure du Texte' in the exhibition ELECTRA 1983 in the Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris. The title of the project alludes, of course, to Roland Barthes' book 'Le Plaisir du Texte' but
pleating (Plissure) is not intended to replace pleasure (plaisir) only to amplify and enhance it."
Roy Ascott, Art and Telematics, in Heidi Grundmann, ed, Art Telecommunication, Vancouver: Western Front; Vienna: BLIX, 1984.
pp. 24-68
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I.P. Sharpe
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Robert Adrian X. Medien, Kunst, Netz
__ARTBOX/ARTEX
__Robert Adrian,
Art and Telecommunication, 1979-1986: The Pioneer Years, springer 1:1, 1995
__Roy Ascott,
La Plissure du Texte, December 11 to 23, 1983 (ARTEX)
__Roy Ascott, "Art and Telematics", Towards a Network Consciousness," in
Roy Ascott,
Telematic Embrace, Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and
Consciousness. Edward A. Shanken, Editor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.
__Heidi Grundmann, ed, Art Telecommunication, Vancouver: Western Front; Vienna: BLIX, 1984
__Jeremy Turner,
"OUTER SPACE: The Past, Present and Future of Telematic Art - 04,
Interview with Norman White about Early Telematic Art at Open Space Gallery in Victoria,
OUTERSPACE, December, 2003
Norman White,
hearsay, Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, Walker Art Center, 2001
The Electronic Cafe, 1984-circa 1997
"THE CHALLENGE: We Must Create at the Same Scale as We can Destroy If the arts are to take a role
in shaping and humanizing emerging technological environments,
individuals and arts constituencies must begin to imagine at a much larger scale of creativity."
-- Kit Galloway & Sherrie Rabinowitz,
"The Electronic Cafe" in Judy Malloy, Producer,
Making Art Online, 1991-1994,
Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, Walker Art Center, 2001
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Electronic Cafe, International, 18th Street Arts Center
__Steven Durland,
"Defining the Image as Place, a Conversation with Kit Galloway Sherrie Rabinowitz
& Gene Youngblood", High Performance 37:53-59. 1987
Leonardo 24:2, 1991. pp. 228-230
The WELL, 1985-
__John Coate, "Art Communication and The WELL", in Leonardo,
Supplemental Issue, Electronic Art 1988.
p.118
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WELL Tales
Art Com Electronic Network, 1986-circa 1992

Art Com Electronic Network Founder, Carl Loeffler
"You know that I'd been following and participating in Canadian Art from the mid-seventies.
And this had gotten us involved in slo-scan video and computer networking projects as early
as the late seventies. In 1979/80 at SF MOMA we did a project called
ARTISTS USE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS where we created a slo-scan link from that museum
to cultural facilities in Tokyo, Vancouver, Toronto, Vienna, NYC, and Boston.
The transmission was broadcast live on TV in Austria. To coordinate it all we used I.P. Sharpe and Associates, a Canadian based telecom carrier. The event is major in the history of art, because it was the "first" time this activity found its way to a museum.
We interacted with these locations from SF MOMA, and it was great."
Carl Loeffler as quoted in Judy Malloy,
Memories of Art Com and La Mamelle, 2011

The Art Com Electronic Menu circa 1987
__Roy Ascott and Carl Eugene Loeffler, guest eds, Connectivity: Art and Interactive Telecommunications,
Leonardo 24:2, 1991
__Carl Loeffler,
"Telecomputing und die digitale Kultur", Ars Electronica 1989,
Ars Electronica Arkiv
__Carl Loeffler, "New Art Online", in Leonardo, Supplemental Issue, Electronic Art 1988
__Judy Malloy,
Memories of Art Com and La Mamelle, 2011
The Mail Art Factor
"'Information....in Communication Theory, is the Successive Sslection of Signs,
Without Regard to Their Meaning'" Mail Art from Ed Higgins, 1984
Madelyn Kim Starbuck,
Clashing and Converging: Effects of the Internet on the
Correspondence Art Network, Dissertation, Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of
The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy, 2003
Echo, 1990-
Stacy Horn,
"The 1st Social Network"
System X, 1990
Scot Art, "System X", in Judy Malloy, Producer,
"System X" Making Art Online, 1991-1994, Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, Walker Art Center, 2001
The Thing, 1991-
Wolfgang Staehle, director of The Thing: Screen grab of The Thing
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old.thing.net
__Dike Blair,
HIS THINGNESS, Interview with Wolfgang Staehle
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Wolfgang Staehle
__Wolfgang Staehle,
"The Thing", Median Kuntz, Netz
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The Internet Before the Web: Preserving Early Networked Cultures, the New Museum, March 8, 2013
"New Museum's Digital Conservator Ben Fino-Radin in conversation
with renowned archivist, historian, and documentary filmmaker Jason Scott and
Wolfgang Staehle, artist and founder of The Thing BBS"
Arts Wire, 1992-2002

Image from the Arts Wire Website
"The mission of Arts Wire is to provide the arts community a communications network
that has, at its core, the strong voices of artists and community-based cultural groups.
With this foundation, Arts Wire intends to develop a broad and inclusive on-line
community that allows distinct communities to establish their own standards and patterns
of use within a system that reinforces
democratic values and encourages interaction among its users.
resources among a group of interested peers."
From Arts Wire's Mission statement, circa 1992
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Arts Wire on the Wayback Machine, December 18, 1996
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NYFA's History
__Judy Malloy,
Memories of Arts Wire, 2011
__Anna Couey and Judy Malloy,
Interactive Art Conference, 1993-1998
__Aida Mancillas and Lynn Susholtz, "Project Artnet"
documented in Anna Couey,
"Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women" in Judy Malloy, ed.,
Women, Art & Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2003. p. 66
__Pauline Oliveros, Douglas Cohen and David Mahler, NewMusNet
__GENIND/NEME, Gender and Identity in New Media
Produced by Judy Malloy
Participants included Robert Atkins, Dara Birnbaum.
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Joseph DeLappe, Carolyn Guertin
Jennifer Hall, Blyth Hazen, Patricia Kim-Rajal,
Brenda Laurel, Cecile Le Prado. Jacalyn Lopez Garcia
Jaishree Odin, Pauline Oliveros,
Christiane Paul, Frank Popper, Sonya Rapoport, Cynthia Beth Rubin,
Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Loriann Two Bulls (Ogala Lakota) and Pamela Z,
among maany others.
Cultures in Cyberspace, Nov 2-13, 1992.
Anna Couey, producer. Participants were American Indian Telecommunication/Dakota BBS; ArtsNet; (Australia)
Arts Wire; USENET; and The WELL.
TrAce Online Writing Centre, 1995-2005

TrAce Business Card - courtesy of TrAce founder, Sue Thomas
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Archive of the TrAce Online Writing Centre 1995-2005
__J. R. Carpenter,
"Traces of the trAce Online Writing Centre 1995-2005", Jacket 2
Index of the eliterature chats hosted by Deena Larsen
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TrAce ForumLive & Online Meeting MOO/Chat logs
A selected archive of logs of trAce online meetings, including joint trAce/elo chats
Contemporary Digital Humanities
Social Media Platforms
The WELL, 1985-
MUSEUM-L, Listserve, 1991-
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The Museum Discussion List (Museum-L)
Rhizome, 1996-
"Artist Mark Tribe recognized that in order for this innovative form of expression
to push its way into the forefront of contemporary art, there must be a platform of
meanful communication among its creators. In February of 1996, he launched Rhizome,
an online gathering of artists, authors, designers, programmers, musicians, curators,
critics and groupies from all over the world"
Lila Sneed, "Rhizome Internet", Silicon Alley Reporter, 1997
Rhizome Mission Statement
__Mark Tribe and Reena Jana, New Media Art,
Cologne: Taschen Verlag
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Rhizome Archive
Furtherfield, 1997-
"Furtherfield was founded by artists Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett
in 1997 and sustained by the work of its community as the Internet
took shape as a new public space for internationally connected cultural production."
Furtherfield "about" statement
#BlackWriters (Twitter hastag)
BrownPride.com
Critical Code Studies, Humanities and Critical Code Studies Lab
#dhpoco (Twitter hashtag) - Postcolonial Digital Humanities
e-critures
__Serge Bouchardon,
"Digital Literature in France",
University of Technology of Compiegne, COSTECH laboratory
Electronic/Digital Literature (Google+)
#elit (Twitter hashtag)
Fembot Collective
HASTAC, 2002-
founded by Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) and David Theo Goldberg (Director, UCHRI)
The Hermeneia Research Group
__Laura Borràs Castanyer,
"Growing up Digital:The Emergence of E-Lit Communities in Spain.
The Case of Catalonia 'And the Rest is Literature'",
Dichtung Digital No. 42
MLA Commons
netartery
netpoetic.com

Papers and Presentations
Authoring Software Resource Pages
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Muds and Moos
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Twitter
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Computer-Mediated Collaborative Writing
Amanda McDonald Crowley,
"Internet Art: 1992 - 2014", March 10, 2013
Amanda McDonald Crowley,
X-Lab, October 26, 2010 - January 29, 2010
Pavel Curtis and David A. Nichols, "MUDS Grow Up: Social Virtual Reality on the Real World",
Xerox PARC, May 5, 1993.
Steve Dietz,
Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, Walker Art Center , 2001
Leonardo Flores,
"Authorial Scholarship 2.0: Tracing the creative process in online communities",
ELMCIP Conference on Remediating the Social, Nov. 1-3, 2012, 2012
Heidi Grundmann, ed, Art Telecommunication, Vancouver: Western Front; Vienna: BLIX, 1984
Jennifer Hall and Blyth Hazen: "Do While Studio" in Judy Malloy, ed, Women, Art & Technology,
Cambridge, MA, 2003. pp. 290-301
Kathy Rae Huffman, "Face Settings: an International
Co-cooking and Communication Project" by Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman
in Judy Malloy, Editor, Women, Art & Technology. Cambridge, MA, 2003.pp. 398-411
Judy Malloy,
Making Art Online, 1991-1994, Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace,
Walker Art Center, 2001
Bruce Mason and Sue Thomas,
"A Million Penguins Research Report", Institute of Creative Technologies,
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, April 24, 2008
Tom Meyer, David Blair, and Suzanne Hader,
"A MOO-Based Collaborative Hypermedia System for WWW"
discussion of the Hypertext MOO including Hypertext Hotel (begun by Robert Coover in conjunction with
his Hypertext Fiction Workshop at Brown University and ported to Storyspace)
Carolyn Guyer's Hi-Pitched Voices, and David Blair's WAXweb
Nick Montfort and Emily Short,
Interactive Fiction Communities
From Preservation through Promotion and Beyond" in Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek, eds,
Electronic Literature Communities, Part 1, dichtung-digital, Nr. 41
Scott Rettberg, "All Together Now: Hypertext, Collective Narrative, and Online Collective Knowledge
Communities" in Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas, eds New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the
Digital Age, University of Nebraska Press, 2011
Scott Rettberg and Patricia Tomaszek, eds
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Electronic Literature Communities, Part 1, dichtung-digital, Nr. 41
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Electronic Literature Communities, Part 2 dichtung-digital, Nr. 42
Jill Walker Rettberg,
Blogging, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2008. a second edition is in press
Howard Rheingold,
Net Smart, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2012
Warren Sack and Michael Dale,
Street Stories: Designing Networked, Narrative Places of Community.
Digital Arts / New Media Program University of California, Santa Cruz
Penny Travlou,
"Rhizomes, Lines and Nomads: Doing Fieldwork with Creative Networked Communities",
ELMCIP Conference on Remediating the Social, Nov. 1-3, 2012, 2012
Christine Wilks, Randy Adams, and Chris Joseph,
"R3/\/\1X\/\/0RX - an artist's presentation"
ELMCIP Conference on Remediating the Social, Nov. 1-3, 2012, 2012
Rob Wittig,
"Shyness, Cushions, and Food - Case Studies in American Creative Communities",
dichtung-digital, 2012.
For information about the Authoring Software project, email Judy Malloy at jmalloy@well.com
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