Robbin Murphy writes: The Director of the Whitney, David Ross, has been posting promiscuously in the Whitney's ECHO Conference. One of the threads is called "Museums on the Verge" and Ross has asked for suggestions about ways that an art museum can either physically or technologically work on projects with other, non-art, museums. Anyone out there have other suggestions? *************** I belong to a mailing list called COLLAB-L, which is dedicated to using the Internet as a way for artists who are not located in the same area to collaborate on theatrical works, animation, music compositions and dance pieces. The list is hosted by Penn State, and right now it is limited to text-based communication. This is adequate for braistorming, planning, drafting scripts and the like. We have now reached a point where we need to communicate more visually - with grahpics, drawings, flowcharts, scores, animation, audio. I am working on a plan to have my department at NYU host the "multimedia" component of this list so members can upload and download things at will. It sounds like Mr. Ross would benefit from the museum-related version of COLLAB-L.... Any thoughts about extending MUSEM-L into multimedia??? --Susan Jacobson Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University Tisch School of the Arts