For the page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_THING_(Net_Art_Project) ) I merely cut out anything that was repeated on your page - and the stuff that I thought was too bulky or off the central historical line. I tried to line things up by year. So your page will continue to be important and should grow.

It would be great if you can make a French version -- and someone else a German, Spanish etc version....

So here we go into Wikipedia. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_THING_(Net_Art_Project)

Joseph Nechvatal

From: joy@thing.net
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:15:15 +0200
To: thingist@mailman.thing.net
Subject: Re: [thingist] proposed text for THE THING wikipedia page

Hi Joseph,

was not online, but no time today to write a reply.

but ok, I'm here now ;-), you can edit the page and make some corrections or improve the presentation I began.

As I told you, this editing was a draft ready for a further exploration and writing. Most of things come out from copy/paste of various texts, messages, archives, etc. I have compiled along the years.

I'm sure that we can develop a better text and presentation.

Are you all ok to participate to the wiki ?

My proposition is to write a series of texts, based on interviews, archives' probing, etc. which can offer various aspects of TT : documentation, studies, essays, notes, reports, etc.

A large part could concern graphic (and sound) documentation (photos, videos, etc.).

Thus we can cross information (from different sources and references) and validate the outputs.

And the better, I think, it's to do it together...

sounds good ?

Joseph, to go swiftly, what are the parts you don't include within the Wikipedia presentation ?

I answer to your question below.

best and warmly

jerome

Le 21 juil. 10 à 16:32, Joseph Nechvatal a écrit :

OK. I take it Jerome is offline. So I did an edit on what he had below. Check it out everyone before I paste it into http://en.wikipedia.org (or stop me if you hate this idea).

I will need a sub-description (it will be hidden for the most part) to seperate The Thing out from the film and everything else Thingy. Is this OK? (Net Art Project)

seems to be good

or : Net-Artivism ?

:-)

So please quickly read this and make any cuts or changes. Of course I or anyone can change the page after I create it - but the scrutiny will be very strict. Not that it won't be right away.
BTW, what are the page #'s on TT in the Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger (Eds.) “Net Pioneers 1.0: Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art”, Sternberg. 2010?

cheers
Joseph Nechvatal