Nettime is an internet mailing list that was founded in 1995 during the second meeting of the Medien Zentral Kommittee at the Venice Biennale. Founded by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz, the list was meant to provide a space for a new form of critical discourse on and with the nets. Since 1995, Nettime has been recognized for building up the discourse of Netzkritik or Net Critique, providing a backdrop and context for the emergence of net.art and influencing critical net culture in general.
Often understood as a European "on-line" salon, Nettime was initially a pre-publishing platform for international critical thinkers. Originally a mainly English language mailing list, other lists have been created for other languages. While the subscribers have changed over time, the list and lists have had the regular participation of such notable figures as: Rachel Baker, John Perry Barlow, Hakim Bey, Natalie Bookchin, Heath Bunting, Ted Byfield, Vuk Ćosić, Critical Art Ensemble, Ricardo Dominquez, Matthew Fuller, Coco Fusco, David Garcia, Gomma, Brian Holmes, Jodi, Olia Lialina, Geert Lovink, Douglas Rushkoff, Pit Schultz, Alexei Shulgin, DJ Spooky, Fran Ilich, Felix Stalder, Bruce Sterling, Janos Sugar, Faith Wilding, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Ana Peraica among others. The lists has around 3500 subscribers.
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Additional Nettime meetings were held during events like HackIt, (Amsterdam) the Chaos Computer Congress (Berlin), ISEA, the Ars Electronica Festival (Linz), The MetaForum Conferences (95-96) in Budapest. Nettime's one unique event was the Nettime May Conference - Beauty and the East, organized by Ljudmila (Ljubljana). The Hybrid Workspace drew heavily from Nettime during the Documenta X in Kassel.
Contributions to the mailinglist were periodically collected, usually in connection with a conference. In 1999, nettime contributions were anthologized in a book form published by Autonomedia press.
Arns, Inke (2002). Netzkulturen. Hamburg: Europäische Verlagsanstalt. pp. 76. ISBN 3-434-46107-8.
Geert, Lovink (2002). Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-62180-9.