BumpList - 2003 -

An Email Community for the Determined!


Credits Jonah Brucker-Cohen (Design / Concept), Mike Bennett (Technical / Concept) Commission This artwork was Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for it’s Artport Site and is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney. Main Link: www.bumplist.net BumpList Screenshot Circa 2003 Now Available as an NFT: Link to NFT Description In the digital age, networked communication platforms and mediums are becoming more and more user friendly and allow for multitudes of types of interaction, voices, and exchanges of images, sounds, and text, both synchronously and asynchronously. Messages can be sent, voices can be heard, and events can be realized with organization and clarity that never before existed. In particular, emailing lists have become important means of maintaining ties within groups, relaying important information among peers or collaborators, and forging a sense of community that transcends all national and cultural boundaries. Currently, we are actively encouraged to join public email lists. Unless a list adheres to certain rules, is password protected, or made private, anyone with a valid email address can join the discussion. We are also used to conventions of email lists such as subscribe/unsubscribe functions, digest mode, broadcast mode, and public archives of threaded messages. BumpList functions like a standard, public listserv, but adds the constraints of limited membership (only 6 people could subscribe at once) and the urgency of forcing people to re-subscribe if they get bumped and want to continue the conversations, discussions, arguments in which they are engaged. Bumplist Presskit Available on request Press/Media Bumpy Ride, The New York Times: Circuits Section, By Pamela Licalzi O’Connell, 7/31/03. NetArtReview – By Eduardo Navas, 6/4/03 Bump The List! – Rhizome.org – Net Art News, By Valerie Lamontagne, 6/13/03 An Experience in Social Computation, – Sapo.Pt, Portugal Online!, 6/6/03. [English]Mladina (Slovenian Magazine) – By Jaka Zeleznikar, 6/28/03 BumpList, una mailing list in coda FIFO. from Neural online, 7/3/03. [English] LockerGnome Windows Daily – By Cheerleader Meryl, 7/28/03 Exhibitions We=Link: Sideways Online co-presentation by ZKM \| Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Ars at CERN, and Leonardo/ISAST November 20, 2020 – May 23, 2021 Leonardo New Media Exhibition, Re-Drawing Boundaries, April 28, 2011, Online Art Exhibition. “The Art of Participation:1950 to Now“,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11/08/08 – 2/08/2009 San Francisco, California, USA. Enter 3 Festival, Web 2.0 Generation, 11/5-9/07, 2007 @ Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. “My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s“, 5/11/07 -7/1/07 @ Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany. Microwave Festival, 10/5/04, Hong Kong, China. Ars Electronica 2004, Honorable Mention (Net Vision), 9/2-7/04, Linz, Austria. Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK. 3/10/04 – 4/1/04 Transmediale 2004, Honorable Mention (Software Art), 1/31-2/6/04, Berlin, Germany. MAD 03, 10/24/03 – 11/16/03, Madrid, Spain. JavaMuseum, 10/11/03, Cologne, Germany. Observatori, 10/30/03 – 11/2/03, Valencia, Spain. Originally Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, ArtPort Gate Page, 6/1/03 Rules In the discussion there are no rules. BumpList is an open forum just like any other email list. However depending on how much you want to participate in the discussion, it might be to your advantage not to advertise your subscription to the list. The more people you encourage to join, the greater the chance you will be bumped. Currently only 6 people can be on the list at any one time, thus making it an exclusive place so make your voice count! System BumpList exists as an extension to the well-known, open-source mail manager, SmartList. By using SmartList, the project maintains all of the security and subscribe/unsubscribe features of the manager and runs with the robustness of a widely used and distributed application. When subscribing, each participant gets a preliminary email telling them they are subscribed. When they are unsubscribed, they receive an email telling them they were bumped and given an option to rejoin. “BumpList” on display at Transmediale 2004 (1/31/04 – 2/4/04) “BumpList” documentation on display at “My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s“, Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany. (5/11/07 – 7/1/07) “BumpList” on display at “The Art of Participation” @ SFMOMA, (11/08/08 – 2/08/2009) San Francisco, California, USA. “BumpList” on display at “We=Link Sideways” @ Chronus Art Center, November 21, 2020 – May 23, 2021, Shanghai, China.

Credits

Jonah Brucker-Cohen (Design / Concept), Mike Bennett (Technical / Concept)

Commission

This artwork was Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art for it’s Artport Site and is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney.

Main Link: www.bumplist.net

BumpList Screenshot Circa 2003 Now Available as an NFT: Link to NFT

Description

In the digital age, networked communication platforms and mediums are becoming more and more user friendly and allow for multitudes of types of interaction, voices, and exchanges of images, sounds, and text, both synchronously and asynchronously. Messages can be sent, voices can be heard, and events can be realized with organization and clarity that never before existed. In particular, emailing lists have become important means of maintaining ties within groups, relaying important information among peers or collaborators, and forging a sense of community that transcends all national and cultural boundaries.

Currently, we are actively encouraged to join public email lists. Unless a list adheres to certain rules, is password protected, or made private, anyone with a valid email address can join the discussion. We are also used to conventions of email lists such as subscribe/unsubscribe functions, digest mode, broadcast mode, and public archives of threaded messages. BumpList functions like a standard, public listserv, but adds the constraints of limited membership (only 6 people could subscribe at once) and the urgency of forcing people to re-subscribe if they get bumped and want to continue the conversations, discussions, arguments in which they are engaged.

Bumplist Presskit Available on request

Press/Media

Bumpy Ride, The New York Times: Circuits Section, By Pamela Licalzi O’Connell, 7/31/03.
NetArtReview – By Eduardo Navas, 6/4/03
Bump The List! – Rhizome.org – Net Art News, By Valerie Lamontagne, 6/13/03
An Experience in Social Computation, – Sapo.Pt, Portugal Online!, 6/6/03. [English]Mladina (Slovenian Magazine) – By Jaka Zeleznikar, 6/28/03
BumpList, una mailing list in coda FIFO. from Neural online, 7/3/03. [English]
LockerGnome Windows Daily – By Cheerleader Meryl, 7/28/03

Exhibitions

We=Link: Sideways
Online co-presentation by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Haus der Elektronischen Künste Basel, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, Ars at CERN, and Leonardo/ISAST
November 20, 2020 – May 23, 2021

Leonardo New Media Exhibition, Re-Drawing Boundaries, April 28, 2011, Online Art Exhibition.
“The Art of Participation:1950 to Now“,San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11/08/08 – 2/08/2009 San Francisco, California, USA.

Enter 3 Festival, Web 2.0 Generation, 11/5-9/07, 2007 @ Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

“My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s“, 5/11/07 -7/1/07 @ Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art,

Oldenburg, Germany.

Microwave Festival, 10/5/04, Hong Kong, China.

Ars Electronica 2004, Honorable Mention (Net Vision), 9/2-7/04, Linz, Austria.

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK. 3/10/04 – 4/1/04

Transmediale 2004, Honorable Mention (Software Art), 1/31-2/6/04, Berlin, Germany.

MAD 03, 10/24/03 – 11/16/03, Madrid, Spain.

JavaMuseum, 10/11/03, Cologne, Germany.

Observatori, 10/30/03 – 11/2/03, Valencia, Spain.

Originally Commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, ArtPort Gate Page, 6/1/03

Rules

In the discussion there are no rules. BumpList is an open forum just like any other email list. However depending on how much you want to participate in the discussion, it might be to your advantage not to advertise your subscription to the list. The more people you encourage to join, the greater the chance you will be bumped. Currently only 6 people can be on the list at any one time, thus making it an exclusive place so make your voice count!

System

BumpList exists as an extension to the well-known, open-source mail manager, SmartList. By using SmartList, the project maintains all of the security and subscribe/unsubscribe features of the manager and runs with the robustness of a widely used and distributed application. When subscribing, each participant gets a preliminary email telling them they are subscribed. When they are unsubscribed, they receive an email telling them they were bumped and given an option to rejoin.

“BumpList” on display at Transmediale 2004 (1/31/04 – 2/4/04)

“BumpList” documentation on display at “My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s“, Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany. (5/11/07 – 7/1/07)