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+ | * http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/revisiting-backspace | ||
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Revision as of 22:49, 31 July 2016
Backspace - Media Lab & Riverside Lounge in London opened in spring 1996 and closed down late December 1999.
"Backspace existed in close proximity to a number of new media companies.
Internet bandwidth was then very expensive and only businesses could
afford a permanent high-bandwidth connection through a leased dedicated
line. James Stevens, founder of Backspace, convinced his former colleagues
in commercial website construction to share their 512k connection. Through
this shared connection, Backspace enabled young artists to create their
own internet-based works and experiment with audio and video live
streaming over the internet. Live streaming from home was unthinkable at
the time, no one could afford it. Backspace was run as a shared resource.
The users were responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of
infrastructure. People could go there to learn new programming tricks and
share ideas about net art. Backspace also hosted small conferences and
presentations of artists’ work. Among the people who used Backspace for
work, presentation and collaboration were Rachel Baker, Manu Luksch (later
founder of ambientTV.NET), media art curator Ilze Black, Heath Bunting,
Gio D'Angelo, Pete Gomes, Lisa Haskel and many more. The vibrancy of the
place became well known across the networked scenes of Europe and further
afield, while locally it soon became a focal point of the early net art
scene."
Armin Medosch, 2003
- Literature
- http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/those-were-not-backspace-days
- http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/revisiting-backspace
- Links