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!!THE THING Artivism THE THING - which since 1991 has fostered network artists, critics, curators, and activists and in the shifting Internet climate of the last decade, has sought ways to interconnect their diverse interests and activities - now seeks to locate on a system which will be hospitable to art and activist content. In response to a question from CURRENT about what kind of systems thing.net would implement if it were to set up its own autonomous network, Wolfgang Staehle commented that{br}{br} ''Our intention is to build redundancies into the system by setting up backup servers with cooperative ISPs in Europe and elsewhere. Another solution we've been discussing is to purchase a block of 4096 Ips from ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) and have two upstream providers. This won't solve all the problems but it could give us a bit more room to maneuver in similar future situations, should they arise.'' '£(In response of the Verio's decision to shut down Thing.net on December 2003)£' {br}{br} On Dec 1999, a similar affair had occured : ''Apparently Verio Security in Dallas received a complaint by eToys around midnight claiming that a "malicious attack" on etoys.com was originating on one of the thing.net servers.'' (Wolfgang Staehle, 20 Dec 1999) http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9912/msg00155.html {br}{br} On May 1999, War - Artists Bulletin Board : ''Open call for participation. We urge every artist: express yourself. We offer the walls of Postmasters to be an open forum for artists to state their position, express opinions, feelings on the war in the Balkans.'' {br}{br} On Oct 2000, The Thing Roma has been censored (again), after the publication of the book "Let the little children". http://dollyoko.thing.net//censored/dollyoko.html ''After the removal of the interview with dollyoko (now on www.thing.net/~dollyoko/censored/dollyoko.html) due to the publication of two gif animations based on prints by a dutch artist of the late 1700s - which the Australian artist made for DollSpace (^http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko) - the City of Rome yesterday also removed the online version of the book Lasciate che i Bimbi (Luther Blissett, Castelvecchi). A book that The Thing Rome had published, in the early morning, firstly as a sign of solidarity with the closure of the Avana web pages (another social group hosted by the same server), and secondly to contest the emergency and hysterical climate which has been created in Italy recently around the question of pedophilia. In the early afternoon The Thing Roma received a formal letter from the City Administration about the blocking of the page containing the interview with da Rimini and the pages of the book Lasciate che i Bimbi.'' (on Nettime, http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0010/msg00111.html) And the response, No Protest No Profit (30 Oct 2000) : http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0010/msg00325.html {br}{br} And on Dec 2002 : ''Advocate of online art and culture since 1991, The Thing, may have it's pipeline terminated by provider Verio. This termination, scheduled for February, could affect hundreds of sites and users, many of them artists, activists or art-related businesses. Verio lawyers told Thing founder Wolfgang Staehle that their contract for service was unilaterally null and void because of "violations" -- likely the parody site ^http://dow-chemical.com by the Yes Men, and perhaps the persistently provocative campaigns of Rtmark or the Electronic Disturbance Theater (both hosted by The Thing). How to stand up for services geared towards artists and activists? Write to Verio and express your outrage, and make a contribution to The Thing: ^https://secure.thing.net/backbone/ Staehle is looking for new pipelines as you read this.'' (Rachel Greene, on Rhizome, 24 Dec 2002) {br}{br} '''LETTER FROM VERIO (01/2003)''' [http://joy.nujus.net/files/articles/TheThing/verio_.jpg\|http://joy.nujus.net/files/articles/TheThing/verio.jpg] {br}{br} On Nettime, 23th of Dec, 2002 : NYT ''Cyberspace Artists Paint Themselves Into a Corner'' ny Matthew Mirapaul : http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2003-01/msg00141.html {br}{br} In July/August 2007, due to financial problems to finance the data center in NYC, THE THING is migrating to a new place by moving 6 servers onto one... ^[[temporary website\|http://www.thing.net/]] ''We need to raise money, but nobody cares about what we do so i guess an era is coming to its end. We have a new server in Germany, but we need to talk how we can continue.'' (Wolfgang Staehle) {br}{br}{br}{br}
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