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Jimpunk's javascript work, more browser.art than net.art, has been around for quite a while, but its always worth checking back to his website to see new pieces. "Aleilissa" is one of these works thats worth the trip. If your low on memory close a few windows, maybe applications as well then sit back and enjoy!
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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The following is a review that was originally posted on Thursday 13, 2003. For some reason, only part of it appeared on the weblog. It is here posted again.

Judith Villamayor develops websites based on structural strategies. Some of her pieces include Libro 2: Moma.org an eloquent appropriation of the MoMA museum website as it appeared on March 2002. She also appropriated Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts' (mbna.org.ar) website as mnba.com.ar with careful adjustments throughout the webpages to create social commentary.

Villamayor has also pushed authorship issues by creating bugs en el systema. Here, avatars that she herself created helped her win a net art contest which can still be seen at arteuna.com.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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In 1998 Jeroen Bosch started to build a collection of screencaptures of desktops from famous Dutch Internet Personalities. When the collection became too large he handed it over to the webdesigners portal k10k where it got the name "On Display" and became, with 1000's of submitted desktops, one of the biggest internet's hits so far. The project is still running and if you want to be part of it you can of course submit your desktop too.

:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Staying informed is probably the hardest part of being a net.artist / new media artist. With the advant of the internet, information has become more easily accessible than ever before yet paradoxically harder to access! No one website has the definitive picture of net.art and contains all the calls for participation, links to new works etc. This has its positive and negative sides. There is no autocracy or at least should'nt be due to the ease of manipulation of the information yet time and time again many websites try to be the "one-stop shop" for net.art which is perhaps why they fail!

Occasionally I stumble accross a collection of resources so precise in their content thats as if the creators have been wearing blinkers, yet they work because people bookmark them and know where to go if they want this precise information. The first I ever found matching this description was Dr. Reinhold Grether pages of net.RESEARCHERS, net.ARTISTS and net.PUBLICISTS, which contains over 16,161 links. The second is The Association of Internet Researchers List of lists page listing some of the most important mailing lists conected to the internet. And the third I came accross the other day via the cyberculture emailing list is an index of Conceptual Design/Info Arts Links, have a look at the Motion, Gesture, Touch, Gaze, Manipulation, Activated Objects, Haptics section!
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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politicalgraphics.org
is the site for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. This non-profit treasure is the largest archive of socio-political posters in the great nation of Uncle Sam. Their mission is to not only collect great political art but to keep many issues alive by circulating them in exhibits and a web site. They're in Los Angeles, but their exhibitions are trafficked around the globe. The site gives a meager cross-section of the nearly 50,000 posters pushing issues from the great anti-war movements of our time, to the gamut of civil and human rights issues which continue to resurface. Definitely worth checking out when "common sense turns political..."

:: garland kirkpatrick [+] ::
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Some Recent additions to the new media fix include the Italian net art magazine Random, the Brazilian resource arteonline, the Argentinian new media lab limb0.org, and the virtual art gallery boringart.org. For more resources look under the New Media Fix. Also, please send us URLs of a resource organization.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Judith Villamayor develops websites based on structural strategies. Some of her pieces include Libro 2: Moma.org an eloquent appropriation of the MoMA as it appeared on March 2002. She also appropriated Argentina's National Museum of Fine Arts' (mbna.org.ar) website as mnba.com.ar with careful adjustments throughout the webpages to create social commentary.

Villamayor has also pushed authorship issues by creating bugs en el systema. Here, avatars that she herself created helped her win a net art contest which can still be seen at [+] ::
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doctorhugo.com is a webiste with so much information that it is quickly becoming a major resource for net art enthusiasts. It contains theoretical texts such as History of the Internet and Critique of Net Art, as well as links to documentation of pieces that exist outside of the web. This website is close to becoming an institution on itself, which is not always a bad thing.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Destroyevil.com by Katie Bush is a site of "Evil animations" initiated post George W Bush's 'Axis of Evil' speech. Each day, starting from january 1st 2003, the artist adds an animation on the theme of evil / George Bush / war etc.

The animations themselves conform (in the majority) to the same format. Stylistically they are a strange cross between American 1950's coloured advertisements and graphics that might be produced on some sort of 80's computer such as a zx spectrum. The word "Goal" which is used in each and every animation seems to be a embodiment of Bush's target, his "Goal" and the media machine that is his presidency with animations of people digesting the word, watching it on tv, being given blood transfusions of it and it invading nearly every aspect of their lives.

Its refreshing that we are now seeing, post-flash, a return to less complex animation styles with no need for sound. Where the absence of sound and the continued looping in fact seem to be used to great effect to heighten the unease and distaste that is suggested by these animations.
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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Though there's hardly any attention for it, there's really a netartscene in Poland. Here are 14 links to projects by different Polish netartists from the NNK art server :
FiutGymnic - Multimedialny program terapeutyczny
Sonety - sonety spychologiczne
WduszyGra - gra parami styczna #03 - Wduszygra
Profile - gra parami styczna #02 - koło Ciebie
Podlewanie - wiosenna atrakcja
Pasterz - gra parami styczna #01 - owce
TV - belle.art ExcluZiv
Parawany - Przekaz K-ce Ulica
ok.no - wyjrzyj przez
kalafi.org - tour de balance
Możesz - możliwości zmęczonego pana
WWW - miniprojekt
Symulator dresiarza - w warunkach naturalnych
PiesSkok - piesek skacze do basenu
Dziadek je serek - Dj`s life
Zly nawyk - Reskaluj Browser
Pniesek - Symulator pieska

:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Ryan Griffis is currently the guest curator at Turbulence.org. His curated exhibition Subrational eRuptions evaluates resistance's cultural role in global terms. Griffis contextualizes the selected pieces within Frankfurt School philosophy while stating that the specific philosophical stance is not meant to limit the understanding of the works -- but, instead, such contextualization should be considered a starting point to better understand current arguments.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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http://meta.am/graphic/tive/
:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Dutch netart critic Josephine Bosma did interview a lot of netartists. To name but a few: Jodi, RTMark, Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting, Cornelia Sollfranck, Olia Lialina, critical art ensemble, Vuk Cosic, Fakeshop, Margarete Jahrmann, Keiko Suzuki, Helen Thorington, Marko Peljhan, Mez, Igor Stromajer, Prema Murthy, Cary Peppermint, Graham Harwood and Frederic Madre. You can find all interviews with the artists above and a lot more in Josephine Bosma's Database at laudanum.net.

:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Following on from works against / for or recontextualising rhizome, lab404's Curt Cloninger has decided for some unknown reason that its time that net.art goes metal!!!. Why who knows? Is it a means to reflect on how the once subversive art form has become mainstream and is slowly becoming a parody of itself much like the music form? Whatever the reason the work certainly leaves you with no doubt as to how easily it is to subvert / steal / fake / copy / paste / frame anything online back into any context you want.
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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Electronic Book Review
A very extensive site of book reviews with a critical orientation. Well designed and maintained, check the weave feature.
:: ludmil trenkov [+] ::
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Argentinian visual buffet Doma.tv
:: ludmil trenkov [+] ::
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Poetic language is elegantly presented in a soothing Flash interface. The project Feel dealing with narratives inspired by personal experiences was done as a commision for the Horizon Zero Website. Though the web project is a little hard to navigate, the personal stories shared by the artist and the contributors are worth the effort of learning. Best of all, anyone visiting the site can also submit her own personal narrative that immediately becomes part of the net piece. This is one of the few websites effectively using Flash technology as a rich visual cultural vessel, while also making the most of the graphic program's database access and input possibilities.
Artist: Wayne Dunkley
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Here is a great opportunity to become involved in healthy global activism while also making art for the net. Bannerart.org and Velvet Strike will be accepting submissions for their upcoming banner art exhibition. Here is a direct quote from the website's front page:

Banner-Strike is a contest for digital graffiti and net.art that is created under specific limitations and which critically examines the impending war in Iraq. All entries will be displayed in bannerart.org's ongoing banner art exhibition and also turned into a Velvet-Strike spray (to be installed in Counter-Strike). The winner of the contest will win the October 2003 release of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and will be highlighted on the front page of both sites for one month.

The deadline for submissions is 16 April, 2003. The winner will be announced on 18 April, 2003.

For technical requirements and submission application make sure to visit the Bannerart.org site.

Though it is clear that the submission deadline is still a few days away, it might be a good idea to keep it in mind now and even develop some material to submit in the near future.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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You have Rhizome lovers and haters. After Rhizome is a website that has put a few Pro and Contra arguments next to each other. Though this site is clearly not on the Rhizome side (=understatement) the arguments it uses are for a change not only based on emotions but also on facts. For that reason they could well trigger a new debate on some Rhizome issues, as for example free access for people that have work in the artbase, or issues regarding the Rhizome membership agreement. Next to all the Pro and Contras After Rhizome reviews a lot of sites that can be seen as free alternatives to Rhizome. So really a site worth visiting if you want to read some indepth arguments why not to spend your money on Rhizome, or when you search for free Rhizome alternatives, or when you love Rhizome but you think the no.1 netart resource is just not enough.
:: Peter Luining [+] ::
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Stelarc's new work is being premiered this weekend at the ICA in London. The Installation entitled "Prosthetic Head" can be viewed from March 7th to the 12th, from 12-6pm each day.

For any of you who have followed Stelarc's work this is an event that should not be missed!
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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Soundtoys is making a Call for Submissions for an update to their website. They "are looking for contributions of audio visual interactive works, net art, web design, application software, multimedia, generative music, interactive environments, and essays."

The deadline is 1 April 2003 see the Application form online in the "submit section of the website.
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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This has quite possibly got to be the strangist call for project proposals I've seen yet...

"A group of artists from Belgrade has the pleasure of announcing the competition for a 24 hour residential occupation of a Trabant car. The project includes a three day stay for two persons in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, and covers travel cost, visas, accommodation and living expenses for three days, and the materials required for the art work to be produced during the project."

The Trabant Residency Project sprang from an event in 2002 by three artists and aspires to now become an annual event. The deadline is April 10th and open only to artists from EU countries.

To enter, your application must include:
1. Your contact address and e-mail
2. Short CV (including short history of art work and activities)
3. Visual materials in digital form (maximum 1MB)

Send your applications to vladah@bitsyu.net. For more details on The Last East European Show see their website
:: Garrett Lynch [+] ::
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Following Kristen's recent review of the flash animation Kuntsbar, I would like to recommend Nowhere to Run Nowhere to Hide an online animation dealing with possible bombings as an answer to terrorism. The animation has been around for some time now, but is definitely worth another viewing. If anything the little project is able to point to the terrible consequences that a war can bring.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Here are some recent additions to the New Media Fix: Artist Union is currently asking for submissions to create an art database, Yea01.com is a web space featuring artist net projects bimonthly, Center Pompidou is currently exhibiting Un tour du monde du web, which traces the early history of the web by European artists, some which include Vuc Kosic and Isabelle Arvers. A great database that is a thrill to visit is the netartlatino database where sophisticated net pieces can be found, and Cyber lounge at the Museo Tamayo. For more resources look over the New Media Fix. Resources will be emphasized on the weblog from time to time, as these are added.
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:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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