In this week's DIGEST, xenon posts the urls of two new media art time
capsules, adding:

"The two main groups that were doing online computer graphics before
anyone else were ACiD and iCE. The reason few people know about these
groups – most of what was going on was illegal – the promotion of
software piracy."

In last week's DIGEST, Munro Galloway, in a review of 'Digital
Delirium,' reflected on the impulse to define digital culture and
history. (see http://www.rhizome.org/query)

Where are we? In the midst of a revolution? A renaissance? I'm not sure,
But i was struck by how dated ACiD and iCE seemed. The two sites are
from particular moments on the digital art time line: like many early
new media art organizations, ACiD and iCE were associated with
distinctly anti-commercial ethics: hacking, pirating – artistic,
situationist radicalism.

New media art covers more territory these days, economic, theoretical
and otherwise. As a community resource, i hope RHIZOME does too. the
rate of change is hard to miss. Acid and Ice are time capsules. ada'web
is going non-profit. RHIZOME gave birth to StockObjects…

Elsewhere in the DIGEST, some thoughts from Marni Sandler on the
MacClassics show – an exhibit about recycling artifacts/computers…
and Josephine Bosma and Vuk Cosic on net.art then and now.

And tune in next week: Sarah Borruso, who curated and produced
HotWired's Gallery space from 1995 until recently, will share her
experiences of a genre constantly coming into being.