DUMBA Archived Website
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Abstract
The DUMBA Collective (1998-2006) was a non-profit arts collective in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was devoted to the contemporary art practices of the queer community. This collection contains the MySpace page for the DUMBA collective. It describes planning for a sex party, fliers from events at DUMBA, and well wishes from DUMBA's MySpace friends.
Historical Note
Founded by Scott Barry, the DUMBA Collective (1998-2006) was a non-profit arts collective in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. It was devoted to the contemporary art practices of the queer community. They offered space to local and international artists, primarily queer, and gave the majority of the profit back to the artist. The Collective was both a living space and an anarchist community center. It is most known for their Lusty Loft Parties and a filming location for John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus. DUMBA lost its lease in 2006.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the MySpace page for the DUMBA collective. MySpace was a social networking website most active in 2000s. It describes planning for a sex party, fliers from events at DUMBA, and well wishes from DUMBA's MySpace friends.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; DUMBA Archived Website; MSS 621; Wayback URL; Fales Library, New York University.
Custodial History
http://www.myspace.com/dumbacollective/ was initially selected by Tamiment curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2009 as part of the Arts and Cultural Left Web Archive. In November 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2015, the website was transferred to Fales Libary.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Appraisal
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2014, http://www.myspace.com/dumbacollective/ was added to Tamiment Library Web Collection on Organizations (WEB ARC 003). Crawling of the websites in this collection were ceased in 2017. In 2022, archived websites associated with this collection in the Arts and Cultural Left Web Archive were shared to the DUMBA Collective Web Archive in Archive-It for access and replay purposes. This finding aid was created in Fall 2022 and description was standardized across the collection.
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Archived Website
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6128/*/http://www.myspace.com/dumbacollective/
