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Alan W. Moore's <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;"> "Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York" comes out from Autonomedia in 2011. Here is a long synopsis of "Art Gangs"

materials for the PhD Workshop at the University of Essex / London :: September 26-27, 2013 This is the most active part of this wiki, and will be updated throughout the coming months.
 * Artist Collectives: History, Organization, and Politics**

ABC No Rio <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;"> (1985) has been put [|online] with lots of color and new content; a virtual 2nd edition -- thanks, Marc Miller and Ephemera Press!

A webliography and summaries in Spanish from the October 2013 Creative Time Summit have been added here.
 * New!**

This list of artists' initiatives was assembled in 2009 by the Subvision organizers. The much-maligned Hamburg festival included 31 of them. (They are described in more detail in a separate area.) The links up top mostly don't work, but the [|whole list] seems to be there. I'd love to check and integrate all these links into the master list below, but -- they don't pay me to do this...)

- 000 About the //collectiva// project in the January 2008 seminar at USF-Tampa Integrated list of contemporary world artists' collectives. The above list prepared in 2008 combines the C.Cred/16Beaver list of '05 'with the Temporary Services list of '06. Temporary Services gave their listing project to Basekamp and Institute for Applied Aesthetics; it is now at: [] You can add your own space to their useful website... Get a "library card" today!

"Nobody Remembers Everything" timeline by Vince Leo is also on Greg Sholette's site [|Dark Matter] -- it spans the last century, through 1992. "Dark Matter" contains many other useful links and <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline-block ! important; float: none ! important; font-weight: bold ! important; height: auto ! important; margin: 0px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; text-indent: 0px ! important; text-transform: uppercase ! important; vertical-align: baseline ! important; width: auto ! important;">, and is continually being updated (10/13).

"House Magic" ABC No Rio exhibition on the social center movement in European cities -- 5 zines since Spring '09. While this is not about artists' collectivity, it is an extension of Alan W. Moore's research.

Need a reading list, eh? This is a very large bibliography from the mid-00's, with many texts by, and touching upon, artists' collectives.