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Public Netbase was initiated by the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 in the Vienna Museumsquartier in 1994 as a non-profit internet provider and a platform for the participatory use of information and communication technology. With its WWW-server as well as with its workshops, instruction courses, and educational events for the broad public, Public Netbase contributed continually to the evolution of a lively internet scene and a heightened consciousness for the implications of the new communication and information technologies.
As a focal point of European and international art, culture, and media networks, the Viennese net culture institute attempted to develop an understanding for the manifold opportunities and the potential of new communication media, but also to look critically at a society that is increasingly determined by technology.
In addition to the series of workshops and discussions the activities of Public Netbase included, among others, projects that combined exhibitions, conferences and workshops (e.g. Synworld playwork:hyperspace (1999) and Free Bitflows (2004)), projects in public space (nikeground (2003) and Basecamp (2001/2002)) and activities that strengthened self-organization of independent media initiatives and demanded further development of cultural and media policies (in Austria, but also on European level, e.g. European Cultural Backbone (1999-2003)). Public Netbase was very active in the resistance movements against the Austrian right-wing government, that came into power beginning of 2000 and included Jörg Haider's Freedom Party (FPÖ). An own strand of activities derived from this (e.g. government-Austria.at (2000/2001)) and elements of political activism became stronger across all strands of activities.

== Publications ==
Clemens Apprich, "Upload dissident culture: Public Netbase's interventions into digital and urban space", in: Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Vol. 2(2), November 2010, pp. 79–91, online: http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Interface-2-2-pp.79-91-Apprich.pdf, retrieved: 17 September 2013
Clemens Apprich / Felix Stalder (Hrsg.): Vergessene Zukunft. Radikale Netzkulturen in Europa. transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1906-5.
Inke Arns: Netzkulturen, Hamburg (eva), 2002, p. 93, ISBN 3-434-46107-8
Konrad Becker, Dictionary of Operations. Deep Politics & Cultural Intelligence, New York: Autonomedia 2012, ISBN 9781570272615
Konrad Becker (Red.): Die Politik der Infosphäre. World-Information.Org, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung 2002, ISBN 978-3-89331-464-5, online: http://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/36071/die-politik-der-infosphaere
Konrad Becker / Jim Fleming (Eds.): Critical Strategies in Art and Media, New York: Autonomedia 2010, ISBN 978-1-57027-214-1
Konrad Becker / Felix Stalder (Eds.): Deep Search. The Politics of Search beyond Google, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen: Studienverlag, and Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4795-6
Konrad Becker: "Zwang und Verführung in der Kontrollgesellschaft - Selbstvermessung und Wunscherfüllung im digitalen Datenraum", in: Medienimpulse 4/2014 (online: http://www.medienimpulse.at/articles/view/738, retrieved: 19 December 2016)
Beatrice Beckmann, "Das Medium als bleibende Botschaft. Das Wiener Institut für Neue Kulturtechnologien, Public Netbase, streitet für die Historisierung digitaler Gegenwart", in: Die Welt, 17 February 2000 (online: https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article502869/Das-Medium-als-bleibende-Botschaft.html, retrieved: 16 September 2013)
Branka Ćurčić / Zoran Pantelić / New Media Center_kuda.org (Ed.): Public Netbase: Non Stop Future - New Practices in Art and Media, Frankfurt a. M. (Revolver), 2008, ISBN 978-3-86588-455-8 (Hardcover)
Robert Harauer / MEDIACULT (ed.): Digital Culture in Europe. A selective inventory of centres of innovation in the arts and new technologies, Strasbourg (Council of Europe), 1999, ISBN 92-871-3873-7 (in Google books)
Kritische Netzpraxis (Critical Net Practice). springerin. Hefte für Gegenwartskunst, XXI/1 (winter 2015), (in German; a few texts are available in English online: http://www.springerin.at/dyn/heft.php?id=87&pos=0&textid=0&lang=en Archived 2017-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 22 September 2016)
Christine Mayer and Martin Wassermair, "wahlkabine.at: Promoting an Enlightened Understanding of Politics", in: Lorella Cedroni and Diego Garzia (eds.): Voting Advice Applications in Europe: The State of the Art, Scriptaweb (2010), https://www.academia.edu/281395/Voting_Advice_Applications_in_Europe_The_State_of_the_Art, retrieved: 16 September 2013
Werner Reiter, "Die Zukunft war schon mal spannender", The Gap, 22 May 2012, http://www.thegap.at/buchstories/artikel/die-zukunft-war-schon-mal-spannender/ (in German), retrieved: 16 September 2013
Felix Stalder, Martin Wassermair, Konrad Becker: “Kulturelle Produktion und Mediennutzung im Alltag. Urheberrechtliche Problemfelder und politische Lösungsperspektiven”, Studie im Auftrag der Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien, Wien: AK 2013, http://media.arbeiterkammer.at/wien/PDF/studien/Kulturelle_Produktion_und_Mediennutzung.pdf, retrieved: 16 September 2013 (An interview with co-author Felix Stalder about this study is available in English: “Copyright: ‘Media use in the gray zone’“, futurezone.at, 29 March 2013, http://futurezone.at/english/copyright-media-use-in-the-gray-zone/24.593.691, retrieved: 16 September 2013.)
Felix Stalder, Digital Solidarity, Mute / PML Books 2013, ISBN 978-1-906496-92-0 (print), 978-1-906496-93-7 (eBook), online: http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/u1/Digital-Solidarity-Felix-Stalder-9781906496920-web-fullbook.pdf (retrieved: 8 October 2016)
Wolfgang Sützl: “World-Information City. Die indische IT-Metropole Bangalore ist Schauplatz eines World-Information.Org-Projekts“, in: kulturrisse 01/2005, online: http://kulturrisse.at/ausgaben/012005/kosmopolitiken/world-information-city.-die-indische-it-metropole-bangalore-ist-schauplatz-eines-world-information.org-projekts
Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox (eds.), Creating Insecurity. Art and Culture in the Age of Security, DATA browser 04, New York: Autonomedia 2009, ISBN 978-1-57027-205-9
Vera Tollmann, "Das Paradox der 'sozialen Medien'. Gespräch mit dem Medienwissenschaftler Clemens Apprich über Netzkulturen seit den 1990er- Jahren", in: Springer|in 3/13, pp. 10/11
Martin Wassermair: "In Austria, the Clock Ticks with a Different Beat": A Short Story of Public Netbase t0, its International Success and Recent Political Struggles, in: Cultivate Interactive, October 2000, online: http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue2/netbase/, retrieved: 16 September 2013

== References ==

== External links ==
world-information.net
Future Non Stop (archive)
Public Netbase
Wahlkabine.at
Wahlkabine - infofolder in English
Shared Digital Futures - program and video documentation of the conference (2013)
Deep Search - Conference: Part I (2008), Part II (2010)
Austrian Cultural Forum New York: Conference "Critical Strategies in Art and Media" Archived 2017-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
Tate - Surveillance & Control Symposium - Part 8
Algorithmic Regimes – conference and series of events (2015/2016)
Austria Press Agency: Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0's press releases since 2008 (in German)