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Art Services & Organizations"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. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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Arts Projects"ARCTIC CIRCLE " http://www.thing.net/~circle/index.html Arctic Circle is a 'travel-as-art-as-information' project by artists Felix Stephan Huber and Philip Pocock ; by continuously uploading their travel documentation to cyberspace's InfoHighway, they documented their road trip in a camper van up the Alaska, Klondike and Dempster Highways to the arctic sea. As "an investigation into loneliness and ubiquity," arctic circle tries to create a connection between the virtual and physical travel space. Being there or being digital. "BODY MISSING " http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing The Body Missing Project is a collaborative inquiry--led by Vera Frenkel and numerous artists and writers--into the art theft policies of the Third Reich and the fate of artworks missing after World War II. The "Transit Bar," a bar in Linz, functions as a center and graphic interface for the discussions on the curious relation of art and politics. The handwritten map of the website manages to capture the project's spirit: the investigation conducted in texts and images is an ongoing conversation with the past, recalling "missing bodies" through a web of personal stories. "THE FILE ROOM " http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu The File Room provides an indexed and illustrated history of censorship throughout time and throughout the world. The site's title might lead one to expect a rather dull interface; however, the importance of the material collected here is matched by the effort that has effectively been put into making the visitor's experience a user-friendly and engaging one. The File Room began as an artist's project by Muntadas and is now produced by the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago, IL, with the support of the School of Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Cases are indexed by date, grounds for censorship, location and medium. | |
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"ONLINE TV " http://zero.tolerance.org/onlinetv.htm Designed by Andreas Troeger , this site offers its visitors real time transmissions of exterior scenes in New York City shot with a camera attached to a computer. The rapidity with which the images change is at most every sixty seconds, but perhaps because of this limitation, or perhaps because of the aura of randomness, there is a poetic majesty to this constantly evolving project. "SIBERIAN DEAL " http://www.t0.or.at/~siberian/vrteil.htm This project by Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman is based on the idea of trading real objects and virtual information, and establishes a contact between Siberia and Cyberia. During a trip to Siberia organized via Internet and e-mail, typical western objects were traded for local objects from Siberian people. The latter objects were then brought back to Vienna. The website documents the journey as well as the deals and people involved, and thus explores parameters of communication. |
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Virtual Galleries"SITO/SYNERGY " http://www.sito.org/ SITO (previously called OTIS--a lawsuit filed by the Otis College of Art and Design changed that) bills itself as "a place for image-makers and image-lovers to exchange ideas." The site features extensive "Artchives" as well as exhibits. What distinguishes SITO from many other virtual galleries is the "Synergy" section, which features collaborative, interactive projects; among them are "Corpse"--a revamp of the classic "exquisite corpse" drawing exercise--and "PANIC"--a project that gathered artists in real-time to manipulate images. |
Web Museums"ARTSERVE " http://rubens.anu.edu.au Australian National University offers access to an impressive collection of images (reportedly 16,000 and growing) related to the history of arts and architecture. Among the featured categories are classical art & architecture, a survey of "Western Art"--a survey still under construction--as well as contemporary architecture in Hong Kong. A new service called "ImageServe" provides tutorials on Art History, reference works and source images for Architectural History. |