People do know each other, but most often it is through what they post to the list. McCarty is currently involved in publishing a book with Aotonomedia Publishing in New York. It provides a critical view of new media from various perspectives. McCarty has also co-founded a mailing list for women in media art, Faces. She and Kathy Rae Huffman, another former Gene Youngblood student, created Faces as a resource network and a forum for open discourse.
Women working with media can get information and have contact with other women doing similar work.
This just doesn't happen in the main festivals, exhibitions, conferences. . . Though Faces is a closed list, at times it is opened to different projects by McCarty and Huffman. McCarty is also involved in software development. At the Academy of Media Art in Cologne, she is funded by a Nettime fellowship to work with several programmers to develop a free group-ware for alternative media practice. McCarty describes the Academy, a new school dedicated to Media Art, established by Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski in 1993.