ART SERVICES & ORGANIZATION S
ART PROJECTS
VIRTUA:L GALLERIES
Art Services & Organizations
"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.
"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.
"Arts Wire"
http://www.tmn.com/oh/Artswire/www/awfront.html
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.
"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.
"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'.
Arts Projects
"Living Almanac of Disasters"
http://www.westbank.org/~Calender/nstart.html
The French writer Paul Virilio once said that if you invent the train, you
invent the train accident, if you invent the car, you invent the car accident,
and so on and so forth. In the same macabre and illuminating spirit, behold
this site by artist Cati Laporte! Disasters throughout history for every
day-you can even submit your own candidates.
Virtual Galleries
"Äda in flux, an evolving journey"
http://adaweb.com/
Äda's web is a collectively curated website with a pleasingly enigmatic-looking
homepage. The artists whose works are on display include Jenny Holzer, Julia
Scher, Toland Grinnell and Ben Klinmont. Klinmont's work stands out for
its low-tech/high-tech juxtaposition of domestic labor and the prestige
attached to the figure of an artist.
"Fluxus Online"
http://www.panix.com/fluxus/
"Fluxus is like a Korean plant," the artist Nam June Paik is reputed
to have once said, "when it looks dead, it's about to bloom."
This art movement from the the late 50s and 60s has sprung up again, this
time on the Web. Sense the Zen sensibility of not making sense. Works available
include collages, photographs, film and music.
"Kaleidospace"
http://kspace.com
Kaleidospace is an art space/commercial gallery that allows visitors to
choose from 10 categories. At the 'Art Studio' visitors may browse through
exhibited works by medium and subject, and at 'Center Stage!' through performance
clips by genre. The selections are rather eclectic and without apparent
standard. The 'Interactive Arena!' (worth visiting) features links to interactive
works, among them Luis Prieto's "About Us" and David Blair's "WAXweb".
"Plexus Art & Communication"
http://www.plexus.org
Plexus is an online gallery, a journal and a selected archive of art, video,
criticism, theory, poetry and literature. Most of the site is an online
slideshow: you will find slides in the 'Gallery,' featuring specially curated
shows which are changed bi-monthly, in the 'Artists' section, linking to
slide sheets of all the artists shown, and in a separate 'Slideshow' area.
Other principal areas include 'Tracts' (a journal of critical and poetic
writings) and 'Links', leading to art directories, labs and publications.