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BumpList - 2003
An Email Community for the Determined!
"Try BumpList, it's better than being voted off!" - Shii Ann Huang, Survivor:Thailand contestant.Subscribe to BumpList - Main URL: http://www.bumplist.net
Credits
Jonah Brucker-Cohen - Design / Concept
Mike Bennett - Technical / Concept.
Presskit:
BumpList images/info (ZIP) - (300 dpi .Tif images / .doc files - 112k)
Exhibitions:
"The Art of Participation:1950 to Now",San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 11/08/08 - 2/08/2009
San Francisco, California, USA.
Enter 3 Festival, Web 2.0 Generation, 11/5-9/07, 2007 @ Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
"My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s", 5/11/07 -7/1/07 @ Edith Russ Haus For New Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany.
Microwave Festival, 10/5/04, Hong Kong, China.
Ars Electronica 2004, Honorable Mention (Net Vision), 9/2-7/04, Linz, Austria.
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK. 3/10/04 - 4/1/04
Transmediale 2004, Honorable Mention (Software Art), 1/31-2/6/04, Berlin, Germany.
MAD 03, 10/24/03 - 11/16/03, Madrid, Spain.
JavaMuseum, 10/11/03, Cologne, Germany.
Observatori, 10/30/03 - 11/2/03, Valencia, Italy.
Whitney Museum of American Art, ArtPort Gate Page, 6/1/03.
Publications:
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Michael Bennett, Stefan Agamanolis, Fred Cummins, and Linda Doyle
BumpList: Developing Beneficial Email List Structures (poster),
presented at CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, 24 - 29 April 2004, ACM Press.
Press:
Bumpy Ride, The New York Times: Circuits Section, By Pamela Licalzi O'Connell, 7/31/03. (PDF)
NetArtReview - By Eduardo Navas, 6/4/03
Bump The List! - Rhizome.org - Net Art News,
By Valerie Lamontagne, 6/13/03
An Experience in Social Computation, - Sapo.Pt, Portugal Online!, 6/6/03. [English]
Mladina (Slovenian Magazine) - By Jaka Zeleznikar, 6/28/03
BumpList, una mailing list in coda FIFO. from Neural online, 7/3/03. [English]
LockerGnome WindowsDaily - By Cheerleader Meryl, 7/28/03
Description
BumpList is a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists. BumpList only allows for a minimum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is "bumped", or unsubscribed from the list. Once subscribed, you can only be unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and "bumps" you off. BumpList actively encourages people to participate in the list process by requiring them to subscribe repeatedly if they are bumped off. The focus of the project is to determine if by attaching simple rules to communication mediums, the method and manner of correspondences that occur as well as behaviors of connection will change over time.
Overview
In the digital age, networked communication platforms and mediums are becoming more and more user friendly and allow for multitudes of types of interaction, voices, and exchanges of images, sounds, and text, both synchronously and asynchronously. Messages can be sent, voices can be heard, and events can be realized with organization and clarity that never before existed. In particular, emailing lists have become important means of maintaining ties within groups, relaying important information among peers or collaborators, and forging a sense of community that transcends all national and cultural boundaries.
Currently, we are actively encouraged to join public email lists. Unless a list adheres to certain rules, is password protected, or made private, anyone with a valid email address can join the discussion. We are also used to conventions of email lists such as subscribe/unsubscribe functions, digest mode, broadcast mode, and public archives of threaded messages. BumpList functions like a standard, public listserv, but adds the constraints of limited membership (currently only 5 people can subscribe at once) and the urgency of forcing people to re-subscribe if they get bumped and want to continue the conversations, discussions, arguments in which they are engaged.
Rules
In the discussion there are no rules. BumpList is an open forum just like any other email list. However depending on how much you want to participate in the discussion, it might be to your advantage not to advertise your subscription to the list. The more people you encourage to join, the greater the chance you will be bumped. Currently only 6 people can be on the list at any one time, thus making it an exclusive place so make your voice count!
BumpList exists as an extension to the well-known, open-source mail manager, SmartList. By using SmartList, the project maintains all of the security and subscribe/unsubscribe features of the manager and runs with the robustness of a widely used and distributed application. When subscribing, each participant gets a preliminary email telling them they are subscribed. When they are unsubscribed, they receive an email telling them they were bumped and given an option to rejoin.
Picture of BumpList on display at Transmediale.04 (1/31/04 - 2/4/04) |
Picture of BumpList on display at "My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s" (5/11/07 - 7/1/07) |
Picture of BumpList on display at "The Art of Participation" @ SFMOMA, (11/08/08 - 2/08/2009)
San Francisco, California, USA. 
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