Art Services & Organizations
"Arte en Red"
http://www.iua.upf.es/~baigorri/art/
"Arte en Red," maintained by Laura Baigorri, is a directory covering contemporary art in general and electronic art in particular. Updated monthly, this (spider) web is a useful resource offering excellent selections with categories ranging from art centers, museums & galleries, art sites, and artists, to magazines, research & education as well as critical texts & debates.
(Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring '98)
"Art Cellar Exchange"
http://www.artcellarex.com/ace/
If you want to find knowledgeable help regarding the business of art, specifically the transfer of money and art between buyer and seller, then this site is an excellent place to go. The ins and outs of Art Cellar Exchange's approach to the fine arts market are presented by links to specific topics, including "Buying," "Selling," and "Transactions." Visitors can click on "Ask Arty" to have their own questions answered. (Vol. 1 No. 3, June '96)
"Art Daily Inc"
http://www.artdaily.com/
Still yearning for your good old newspaper while browsing the Web for art news? "Art Daily, Inc." may be the cure: the website's design translates a print publication into the digital medium. The webpaper's sections cover "Art Fairs," "Exhibitions World-Wide," as well as "Museums of the World;" it also provides "Special Reports" and a look at "This Day in History."(Vol. 1 No. 10, February '97)
"ArtNet"
http://www.artnet.com/index.html
Art Net's homepage announces that you've reached "The Art World Network" and it is, indeed, the art world of which this site delivers its own important rendition. The site provides important resources and lively presentations of the many sides of this culture. Many galleries have their homepages linked here; there are links to auctions online and online analysis of the art market. Their online publication ArtNet Magazine will certainly continue to gain increasing attention with those web-users wanting to stay in the know about "ce monde."
(Vol. 1 No. 4, July/August '96)
"ArtNetWeb"
http://artnetweb.com/
Designed by Remo Campopiano and Robbin Murphy, two artists with wide experience
in making connections between the arts and publishing, this site offers
an intriguing layout and provides an excellent gateway to exhibitions organized
by various curators and artists. The site also includes a range of information
and material of relevance to artists and their audiences. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"Art & Science Collaborations, Inc."
http://nttad.com/asci/index.html
A.K.A. ASCI is a non-profit organization formed in order to champion collaborations between art and science. They've been doing this since 1991, when the organization was formed by artist Cynthia Pannucci. Five years gives them a certain seniority in the midst of a lot of younger upstarts; this seniority is reflected in the professional quality of their online exhibits and their presentation of information valuable to interested artists. ASCI is located in Soho, Manhattan, and actively solicits other interested individuals to either join them at their monthly meeting at a coffeeshop or to participate online.
(Vol. 1 No. 4, July/Augus '96)
"Arts Net"
http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/
A site that is oriented towards increasing the comfort level of institutional
webusers, both public and private, involved in the arts. For individuals,
its most attractive feature may be its career services; however, its main
mission is to address the needs of arts organizations. Its other services
include guides to information on arts management and development resources. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"Arts Wire"
http://www2.tmn.com/cfdocs/artswire.htm
Arts Wire is a web for the arts within the Web, a service of the not-for-profit
New York Foundation for the Arts. This is a well-organized site that charges
a minimal monthly fee for some of its services. Part of what it offers for
free is an intelligently designed searchable database on the arts. Known
as the Arts Wire Web Base, it allows searches according to criteria that
include location, discipline, program and organization. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"CICV"
http://www.cicv.fr/accueil.html
Founded in 1990, the CICV Centre Pierre Schaeffer--located in Herimoncourt, France--is designed as a place for artistic creation and experimentation. The CICV is concerned with two major issues: How do new technologies allow us to question our relationship with each other? How can we accelerate the encounter between authors, artists, citizens, and children with these new creative tools? CICV's website features a gallery and cinema section, as well as various interesting concepts and projects; among them are "Ulysses," networking the cultural, intellectual, historical and geographical resources of the Mediterranean basin, and "Karawane," a concept of itineraries and exhibits in the cybernetic and geographical spaces of Europe.
(Vol. 1 No. 8, December '96)
"CAS Contemporary Art Site"
http://www.tractor.com
CAS is the WWW debut production of Tractor, Inc.-a multimedia company dedicated
to visual art culture and sponsored by NYU Center for Digital Multimedia.
It is designed as a forum for the exchange of information, artistic expression
and commerce for the international contemporary artworld. CAS exhibits special
projects and provides links to arts organizations, galleries and museums.
In the 'Artists' section you may access information on the work, biography
and representing gallery of each of the listed artists. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"IDEA Online"
http://nunc.com
IDEA (the International Directory of Electronic Arts)--which was launched in 1990 as a paper edition by CHAOS (Centre Histoire, Art, Ordinateur, Science)--has gone online with the technical support of the French company Altern B. IDEA is a useful resource tool covering world-wide activities in the field of electronic arts. The bilingual (French-English), searchable database provides information on organizations, artists, periodicals, TV and Radio in more than 50 countries in Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Each entry includes contact information, a short description of activities and, if available, a link to the URL. The website also features the forewords of the directory's print editions as well as links to further electronic arts resources on the Web. (Vol. 1 No. 9, January '96)
"Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Inc."
http://www.sirius.com/~koncepts/index.htm
"Koncepts Cultural Gallery" is an ethnically diverse, multidisciplinary arts organization and cultural laboratory serving Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area. The gallery's mission is to use art and culture as a focal point for community revitalization, and to create artistic and economic opportunities for artists and entrepreneurs of color. The website presents images from current exhibitions as well as "Word Play," a section featuring poems, story telling, and short stories. The "Sound Koncepts" section is a good space to hear and read about new and established talents based in jazz, blues, or other African-derived forms of musical expression.(Vol. 1 No. 12, April/May '97)
"LaBOR aRT & MURaL PRoJECT"
http://www.igc.apc.org/laborart/index.html
This site is part of an effort "to organize cultural activites that support union and working class struggles for social and economic justice in New Jersey, nationally and internationally." The current "Labor Solidarity Has No Borders" project involves the creation of two murals by artists Mike Alewitz and Daniel Manrique Arias. Each artist will be working with the assistance of a group of volunteers. Hopefully, they'll document the progress of the murals at their website. (Vol. 1 No. 6, October '96)
"Siggraph"
http://www.siggraph.org
SIGGRAPH--the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics-provides information
for computer artists, designers, technicians, researchers and computer scientists.
The website includes materials concerning upcoming SIGGRAPH-sponsored conferences
and workshops, as well as a gallery presenting the artists who participated
in the '95 conference. Other areas are 'Educational Resources' and the
'Art & Design Resources' which include an online gallery and an 'Internet
Art Guide'. (Vol. 1 No. 1, April '96)
"Stadium"
http://stadiumweb.com/
"Stadium" is an art space based on the premise that all space--unless it's a commodity--is
virtual. This virtual space focuses on site-specific art works and on documenting past works made in "ephemeral media"--an intriguing approach for the Web. The projects featured here are worth checking out: the most recent one is Lawrence Weiner's "One Standard Air Force Dye Marker Thrown into the Sea," a filmed art work and interview from 1969; other projects presented at the site are Gerald Ferguson's "The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage" and Ron Wakkary's "Encyclopedia." The site also provides the "Stadium Art Directory," a searchable database of current exhibitions.
(Vol. 1 No. 10, February '97)
"Universes in Universe"
http://www.kulturbox.de/univers/
This virtual universe--organized by Pat Binder and Gerhard Haupt, in collaboration with Kulturbox Berlin--is an excellent directory covering the arts of Africa, Asia/Pacific, Australia and Central/South America and striving to further intercultural discourse. The site can be searched by continent, country or region and provides information on each country's art history, museums, and galleries; artists, curators, and critics; as well as projects and events. The information at the site is available in English, German and Spanish. A universe worth visiting.
(Vol. 2 No. 1, Fall '97)
"Webcinema"
http://webcinema.org
"Webcinema" is a nonprofit organization that effectively uses the Web to create new opportunities for filmmakers: it is "dedicated to the independent filmmaker using new media technologies to finance, create, produce, distribute and market independent film." At the website, visitors can subscribe to the "Webcinema Listserv," a mailing list for the discussion of ideas, projects and events in independent film and new media relating to filmmaking. The site also features a chat room, information on "The First International Digital Film Festival" (Winter, 1997, New York City) and "Virtual Backers' Audition,"
a new way to attract investors worldwide for your film project. (Vol. 1 No. 12, April/May '97)
"Why not sneeze?"
http://www.ccc.nl/sneeze/
"Why not sneeze?" is a magazine/laboratory hybrid maintained by Michael Gibbs, Brigitte van der Sande, Henriette Dingemans and Mieke Gerritzen. The site strives to create a platform for everyone involved with art and media, and it provides a space for art on and about the Web. Featured at the site are Web-specific projects, a section on theory, as well as critical comments on current exhibitions and events. "Why not sneeze?" doesn't contain a lot of materials yet (it presents mostly art works and criticism by the site's creators), but it serves as a good introduction to art on the Net.
(Vol. 2 No. 1, Fall '97)
"Word"
http://rampages.onramp.net/~voorhees/index.htm
This is a site with a unique blend of local flavor--Dallas, Texas--and cosmopolitan "webishness." It strives to cover both arts and literature resources on the Web, keeping in mind the local community from which it springs. It can be said to either benefit or suffer--depending on one's point-of-view--from the anarchic, folkish spirit of its founder Jonathan Van Voorhees. The site generally shows evidence of careful craftsmanship and a concern for getting good work to the people who would appreciate it. (Vol. 1 No. 3, June '96)
"World Wide Arts Resources"
http://wwar.com/
Whether or not World Wide Arts Resources actually provides, as it states, the "most comprehensive information available," it certainly provides a lot of information and will doubtless be a welcomed resource for the arts online. The site claims to have "the only major artists index on the Internet." As promised, the names of many famous artists reside in their index, although enough contemporary artists have no entry to warrant questioning whether any such index will not finally need competitors offering different perspectives. (Vol. 1 No. 3, June '96)
"The X-Art Foundation & Blast"
http://www.users.interport.net/~xaf
This related organization and publication were a website waiting to happen: their purpose is to promote, encourage and exhibit new collaborations involving art and text. "Art and text" is exactly where the Web is at--when it comes to new collaborations. Writers and artists--also anyone interested in contemporary writing and art--would be spending their time well by visiting this site. (Vol. 1 No. 6, October '96)