NC92 Networker Databank Congress

Collection Guide

This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the

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Guide Contents

Administrative Information

Historical Information

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Related Materials

Acquisition and Processing Information

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Administrative Information

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Historical Note

Coordinated by the Crackerjack Kid (aka Chuck Welch, editor, Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology, University of Calgary Press , 1995), the NC 92 Networker Databank consists of 443 indexed items generated by participants in the Decentralized World-Wide Networker Congress (August 1, 1991 -- March 15, 1992). This approximately year long event was composed of dozens of small congresses during which self-identified "Networkers" convened to discuss issues relevant to the present and future of networking culture as well as concerns relevant to copy art, mail art, computer art, cassette recordings, underground publications, etc.

Scope and Contents

The Networker Databank Congress consists of 2.5 linear feet of 443 items submitted by various artists between August 1991 and February 1993 as well as additional material documenting the congress. These items include correspondence related to the Congress, statements about networking written by Congress participants, little magazines, electronic publications, catalogues, a network bibliography, video and audio documentation, and are arranged chronologically by their accesion numbers. The date provided for each item is the date the item was received unless indicated otherwise.

Photographs: 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5