The Mr. net.art competition was a playful subversion of the machismo developing among some artists of the net.art group. It was organized on the 7-11 mailing list, which was in turn a project set up by jodi (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans), heath bunting, and Vuk Cosic. The mailing list 7-11 served as the playground and online community space for anyone interested in net.art and for the artists themselves, and was created mid 1997 after the mailing list nettime became moderated because some of its members saw art email as a form of noise or spam. For the mr. net.art competition I put together an all female jury of artists, critics, and curators, with the intention to make all competition press releases revolve around the jury. In the end the winner of the competition was an experimental software, the first art browser, Webstalker.
