This list is closed now. The archives remain accessible to subscribers. - 4 some time now, various hierarchically-dependant entities have been cauterizing net/web-based activities [n.cluding email-lists] in an effort 2 streamline and contain the netwurk in all its varied formulations. ][net.art][ lists that have previously m.braced x.pressive/communicative tendencies of all typ][o][es r now dying ][heavily][ moderated & flame-driven deaths, with the survivors either hanging on 4 dear text or abandoning the status-quo-seeking shells in s][tatic][warms. _arc[texture.eyes].hive_ seeks to fill the gap][ing hole][ left by those lists previously d.voted 2 the e.volut][e][ion, discussion, practice, & slippage of all actions oriented around the net/web. _arc[texture.eyes].hive_ will try 2 jab ][@][ buttoned boundaries & ][re][create a space where x.perimentation & de.ba][i][t.e regarding any label u care 2 stick on/ova creative practices involving the network [ie new media art, code poetry, net.art, e.literature, content alteration poetry, web art, electronic art, hackerese, digital projects, net.wurks, programmer writing, spam art, incremental texts, theory/hybrid factions, software art, performative interactions, werdwurk, calls 4 applications & submissions, gamer rhetoric, technical info/details, net-linked announcements etc etc] is 2 b x.pected & n.couraged. we [mez & ftr] c the _arc[texture.eyes].hive_ list as a dissemination/node point 4 all things geared 4/2wards/in the n][w][e][b][t, including the active creation of net.wurks via the list mechanism.