COLLAB-L MISSION STATEMENT
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 COLLAB-L is dedicated to bringing artists together to create 
 collaborative works.

 COLLAB-L seeks to use the Internet as a boundary-less 
 communications medium that unites the world in text, image and
 sound. We are also dedicated to experimenting with the Net's 
 potential to bring people together to produce works of artistic merit.

 COLLAB-L provides the following:
   1) A venue for artists, not bound by geographical distances or time 
       restrictions, to work together using the Internet as a communication 
       medium. This venue also encourages international collaboration. 
   2) A meeting place for people with ideas but limited resources to 
       carry them out, including little access to colleagues with similar 
       ideas.
   3) A discussion forum, workshop and testing environment to 
       promote and facilitate collaboration among artists of all disciplines on 
       any artistic project suggested to the group by any group member(s).

 ORIGIN
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 COLLAB-L began with the mission to create new texts and new 
 performance works through the collaboration of theater artists 
 (playwrights, directors, designers, etc.) and composers, musicians and 
 librettists. As it grew, it attracted actors, visual artists, computer 
 animators, multi-media designers and others interested in finding 
 collaborators, or those interested in the topic of collaboration.

 COLLAB-L was founded by Steve Schrum, a lecturer in Theater Arts 
 at Penn State University, in June, 1994. Steve was motivated by a 
 lack of nearby colleagues and saw the Internet as a way to find collaborators  
 for projects he had conceived, as well as a place to meet other artists 
 in search of collaborators.

 Within a month of its inception, COLLAB-L had more than 60 
 subscribers from around the world, including the United States, 
 Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, and
 Israel. The subscriber list continues to grow, and contains a wide
 variety of people, working in many areas of theater, music, dance,
 graphics and computer technology.

 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
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 Send the message (with no subject line):
 subscribe collab-l <your firstname> <your lastname>
 to LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDU.

COLLAB-L Update:

In June of 2004, Steve migrated COLLAB-L to YahooGroups. At the time of migration, COLLAB-L had 264 subscribers.

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