The Thing

That was an artist-run, pre-web bulletin board system that became an early-web ISP provider and general host for artist-enabled projects. It was built and run by an artist named Wolfgang Staehle, who was directly grounded in a New York and international conceptual art framework.

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At that time, there was another organization that was even more important than Rhizome and that was the Thing.

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